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Subscribe to RSSAnother round of howling winds and blowing snow punished parts of New England, with at least 26 people hurt in collisions that forced the closure of busy Interstate 95 on Sunday.
More than a dozen collisions damaged 30 cars along a two-exit stretch of I-95 near West Haven, Conn., NBCConnecticut.com reported. Police closed both sides of the East Coast's primary north-south route for two hours.
As the storm system pushed north, it left a stretch along the northern border from upstate New York to the east coast of Maine bracing for bitterly cold wind chills and more snow, according to the National Weather Service. Eastern Maine faced a blizzard warning until 4 p.m. ET Monday.
Winds were predicted to gust up to 50 mph, causing wind chills approaching 30 degrees below zero. Blowing snow was likely to create white-out conditions and produce drifts up to several feet high, the weather service said.
The second blizzard in as many weeks is hitting the Northeast. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
In addition to Maine, parts of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire were under similar advisories, with wind chills of nearly 30 below possible in higher elevations.
Weather.com predicted that the wind would be a much bigger problem than snow, with only an additional inch or two expected. Such snows are "not particularly heavy by New England standards," weather.com said, but poor visibility and bitterly cold air presented real dangers.
No widespread flight cancellations were reported by 6 a.m. ET Monday, according to FlightAware.com. However, the weather system on Sunday contributed to more than 200 U.S. and Canadian flight cancellations. Particularly hard hit was Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, where 84 flights were canceled. The storm dropped flurries as far south as Charleston, N.C.
Elsewhere, the Northern Plains was experiencing the nation's harshest winter weather.
The weather service issued blizzard warnings for parts of North Dakota and Minnesota, with wind gusts up to 45 mph and snowfall of up to 10 inches expected through Monday evening. The nearly 3 million inhabitants of Minneapolis-St. Paul were forecast to just miss the worst of the weather.
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We must ban snow, especially snow on interstate highways. It causes too many injuries....
We need to Ban stupidity. Two cars is an accident 26 cars is stupid.
One person killed accidentally with a gun is stupid.
Multiple people killed with a gun is complete stupidity.
Just like your complete lame attempt to use every story to further an agenda.
How about we just ban stupid people from owning cars and guns? When it snows, stay home.
If you don't feel safe at home buy a dog. it's that simple. the proverbial bad guys don't come to my house. i have a rottie/lab mix that weighs about `140 pounds and no fat. But he loves kids and is very protective of my grandchildren. And he's a lot faster then me running for the gun case in the closet.
george pauljohn.......if only it were that simple. When people are right up against a rock and hard place, staying home isn't an option. The schools close at the PREDICTION of a snowflake here in NY. The school paycheck continues, no matter what. It doesn't work that way for the rest of us. If you start missing days because of snow you'll soon find yourself on unemployment.....assuming you've had a job long enough to collect it!
Also...you are in for a rude awakening if you believe a dog, even a big bad one, is any match for a firearm. You better hope a bad person doesn't come calling. After all.....the police are just minutes away, when seconds count, if you can even call them. If society breaks down....even for a day or two, I'd want to be prepared. Also ....maybe that cop will stay home that day if it's snowing.
Not to worry Chris...President Obama has already put God on notice that he will issue an executive order outlawing just that.
Chris-353472,
How about we teach people the difference between an accident and a deliberate death caused by a weapon that was designed, manufactured, and purchased with the intent of killing.
Let me explain something once again, forgetting for a moment the simple FACT that your anti gun rant has no business in a WEATHER article,try to wrap your mind around this......
Take a standard one 1 ton 4x4 Chevy pick up with standard equipment crash bar on front (like in the commercials)
Place near large crowd
Insert Moron behind steering wheel
What happens next?
See the fallacy in that thought train Sam? A firearm is not a weapon any more then the truck would be it is an intimate object as i have told you before.
( i hate the car comparisons BTW and used it merely for the ease of communication, as the "agenda" is only apparent to those who cannot think for themselves nor comprehend the big picture without the simplest of example.)
Well put, good morning Scooter from SC :)
GM Carol.
IA.ScooterTramp cars or trucks are NOT being deliberately used to kill thousands peeps...sheesh I'm not even anti-gun and I see how stupid YOUR argument is!!
signed,
an ex-NRA member who has no desire to take away the 2nd amendent
Stop with the "banning" $hit... that $hit is getting old
ban $hit ?..... good idea and it makes about as much sense........and who needs "old" $hit anyways? ( beside politicians of course)
Good grief, the gun and antigun nazis have even managed to twist an article about the weather to their agenda! What's next? Obama's golf game?
snow doesn't kill people...people kill people;-)
of course, especially when they drive too fast on snow covered roads
Perhaps not "people" however ..but should someone shout and point...
Look up in the sky !!!.. the sheeple would no doubt stare upwards....mouths open........
The single biggest group of people killing people in USA by a factor of ten (not the weather), is when you or anyone else is within 2000 feet of any police person with gun or a police car that almost never follow traffic rules, that police person walking, driving, flying (helicopter) or simply standing, like the mass killing attempts near Empire State building-(9 wounded)- and many others like that when they play "returned home from the war zones" games with that "playing" done right here on main land USA, just look at the 60 last week chasing one of their own, (gone whistle blower), but watch the sideline casualties and harassment of thousands ordered out of their cars out there, with guns held to their heads and childrens heads, by police right here in USA--FREEDOM, FREEDOM, like we preach in Iraq and Afghanistan, I wish we could actually have Western style FREEDOM here, but it is getting far worse than it was decades ago with these dangerous killers!
GA Scooter,
Think you got the answer. All we have to do is ban morons and voila! Problem(s) solved!
.............at the very least they should be banned from reproducing......
Too much spam. Moderators where are you?
fighting a computer enhanced ghost.
Out shoveling snow...;)
i don't know why i wrecked i have awd. it's called slow down on snow covered roads and i don't mean from 70 to 55 either.
I find slowing down also proves itself handy in less beer spillage.
One more tragic incident caused by unlimited acccess to automobiles. How many of these vehicles were "Assault Vehicles" capable of carrying more than one person to their doom?
Automobiles were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill. Private ownership of vehicles should be banned within 100 miles of any city with a population greater than 500,000.
There, someone had to create the obligatory psychotic rant. Glad that's over...
LOL! That is the most ignorant comment I have read on any board in quite some time.
For a real belly chuckle check a few of your own Sam.
Apparently sam does not know sarcasm when he reads it. LOL
no, sams knows sarcasm when he reads it....BobW-664334's comment was stupid the 1st time and it's stupid the 10th time as well....
The dumba@@es are out in full force. You are really showing your I.Q. when you feel the need to interject some gun rant on every article. Grow up and realize the more idiotic comments you keep making the more people are going to absolutely know there is a need for better gun control because the fools on these blogs need to have a mental health checkup to see if they are competent to even be able to gaze at a gun let alone hold one.
When I lived in Ohio we did not get much snow. The joke used to be when a snow flake hit the ground everyone would just look around for the nearest car and hit it. That was they got it over with quicker.
MG71, you are totally correct! I can't tell you how many times a 4-wheel drive SUV or pickup has flown past me in conditions such as the ones described in this article! What many of these drivers don't realize is that their vehicles have heavier front ends due to transfer cases in the front axles. When brakes are applied the weight is transferred to the front. Under normal driving conditions not so much of a problem. Under poor conditions, front end traction breaks very easily and you will loose steering control!
moto87
I'm sure the Auto companies that put out these ugly behemouths on wheels go to great lenths to explain that though they can go where other vehicles may fear to tread, that most of the time they will be on highways with other cars and that stopping ability is the real test. They probably should give I.Q. tests to prospective SUV owners as a condition to the purchase.
Bob, I could say that same thing about alot of things.
People should be required to take an IQ/Mental stability test before,
They get their drivers license.
They get a dog.
They get a gun.
They are allowed to have a child.
Unfortunately, being stupid is not a crime.
if people would drive according to the conditions there would be WAY fewer accidents. 4wheel drive or not!
Janine.....Unfortunately, being stupid is not a crime.
Just wait awhile, they're working on it. Trouble is.....who defines stupid? Is the ones who can stuff the ballot box the most? Or is it ones who pass the survival of the fittest test? Just wait awhile.....
Good point John.
True Janine But it would be much simple to just get one in Illinois. you don't gotta move there or nothing mind ya, just ask for one.
I didn't mean to imply that 4 wheel drive SUVs and pickups are bad vehicles! I own a 4 wheel drive pickup myself! I meant that these type of vehicles can give one a false sense of security in bad conditions because of the added traction capability. However, their braking capability is reduced, especially under poor conditions. Drivers need to realize this when operating these type of vehicles!
I know this area good traveled it every day for five years. The only reason for these accidents is Sunday drivers. Monday to Saterday it is work related driving but on sunday you get the gawkers out there that don't know there left from right. Try driving in that area during the week and no trouble drive there on sunday you better keep alert because one of them sunday drivers will hit you. I know been there did it seen it!!
The I-95 does not need snow to have accidents; it is a very dangerous road at the best of times in the Conn-NY corridor.
Better then I-74 that damn thing will ice over in july. Or at least the people drive as such.
All I have heard for years is "you southerners don't know how to drive in the snow. We do because we do it all the time."
I guess that is another northern myth debunked by reality.
Common sense seems to go out the window when the weather gets treacherous for driving on snow covered roads. There seems to be two types of drivers: The one that seems to drive at a gacier's pace racing the snow's melt with their own progress down the freeway and the other that because they are in their ugly SUV "Palace on wheels" think they can go anywhere because they have four wheel drive. When the two types of drivers meet on the roadway, trouble always seems to result.
If people would only learn to give themselves extra room from the vehicles in front while going at a reduced speed, everyone would get home safe and sound albeit a little later. Suv owners, should learn that though they can "go most anywhere" in their four wheel drive.... Stopping anywhere is another matter!
We had snow in SC on Saturday. You did not see cars on the road, because we do not get it much and most where at home enjoying it. JUST STAY OFF THE ROADS, plain and simple.
Man has determined that we are the Masters of the Universe, unfortunately for us, Mother Nature has to put us in our place every once in a while.
Who said anything about Southerners?
Carol of from SC, maybe you can stay off the roads during rare snow events in South Carolina. When it snows in the winter in New England, it's not a rare event. If we stayed off the roads for every snow, we wouldn't work or get to school all winter
Really Daaaaaaaaaaaah so you should be use to it, and there should be no wrecks. Now get real.
Hmmm........I wonder who's the one that's not getting real?
"But, but, I saw the Range Rover going thru 6-foot snowdrifts at 60 MPH! It was on TV!"
6079......also,
"The internet can't lie!"
cant say the myth is debunked unless you know from what area the driver that caused the accident hails?
....."I don't know any of the facts about the accident, but I'm sure George Bush casued it."
Barrack, Don't Blame Me, Obama
Poor Bob: he still hasn't gotten over November!!!!
Gil...
You're right.... I just hope our NATION gets over eight years of incompetence that borders on treason.
Hilarious. Do these right-wing tantrums ever have an end?
Focus children! wrong topic.has nothing to do with politics LOL
joe s......seems you're wrong. EVERYTHING has to do with politics! This is the new reality. Heck....I'd bet after the investigation is complete we'll find every motorist belonged to the same political party or was an illegal alien!
Johnny: no doubt trying to get to the free Phone handout!
Gilboagirl.......you've got me chuckling...I didn't think of that one!
wonder what kind of bumper stickers were "in the dirch"
As a matter of fact, I do own the sidewalk..........
Horn broken, watch for finger..........
My kid beat up your honor roll student.......
I'd rather be playing golf.........
Why do people not have the common sense to stay off the roads are too dangerous?
Are you going to pay all those peoples bills that stay home when it snows? I'll stay home every time they forecast a snowflake if you will!
If we did that up here, we would be fired. Some parts of the country are not able to stay home and cry about the snow.
The drive to the conditions of the road. Besides it was the weekend. We all know sometimes you have no choice.
Warren: I for one had an employer who didn't care what difficulties you encountered on you way to work which is what happened to a lot of Long Island drivers with the last storm. Their Employers didn't let them leave work early even though everyone knew it was going to be a bad storm. When your job is threatened, you do what you gotta do.
We had an ice storm one time where no one could get out of the building but the boss expected everyone there even though he stayed home that day because of the roads when he called in his orders! So, it's not always a choice to go out, and maybe some of these folks have to work week-ends also.
Carol From Sc
Thank you for the pleasant post Carol.
Hate to hear folks whine about bills and try to martyr themselves for a wage. The same people that insist on bringing the Flu bug to work to share with everyone..
Carol...you're 100% right. However, even though today is a holiday, it's really only for people that work for the government or quasi government organizations. Most people that don't fit into those groups are working today. The reasons why are another matter.
Warren.....with that post you managed to take the award......you know the one......the one I can't mention here!
Today is a holiday for the lucky one. I personally have the great opportunity to work from home. I understand also that most are not so lucky. I just hope all are safe. God Bless.
Will you just go the f....k away
One starts to wonder if nothing can be discussed without some dim bulb dragging in a political agenda. Try doing your own thinking folks.
I rather expect this south of the Mason-Dixon Line...but CT drivers unable to drive in snow? Really?
All it takes is one jack-knifed tractor-trailer, and it causes a chain reaction. People who are used to driving in snow are not invincible, and they can't stop an accident once it starts. Besides...it was probably caused by someone south of the Mason-Dixon "just passing through."
CK....you give people way too much credit!!
A trip just about anywhere around the Boston-Washington DC corridor on a GOOD day will be self-explanatory as to why these things happen. Just take a look at the percentage of cars without damaged sheet metal and those with damaged sheet metal, you'll get the idea real quick. Add some inclement weather and things change drasticly.
The thing that surprises me though, is that the damage is REALLY AT AS LOW LEVEL as it is. That's a great testament to the engineering that's went into the system.
CT drivers are some of the worst in the nation. I can totally believe this would happen there. I've seen them drive on clear roads for god's sake ! They all believe that the accelerator is just a on and off switch. Snow and Ice? What snow and ice ?
Breel, as a life-long New Englander I have to agree that CT drivers can be horrible.
I remember talking to a friend of mine who lived in CT at the time about how I don't like the law in CT that prohibits the use of turn indicators.
She laughed at the time, but it's more true than not.
People dont want to be bothered with slowing down. Till they crash a few times
It's my theory that when a population gets too large that stupidity sets in to clean out the gene pool.
Just get rid of drivers in the North that can't drive in winter conditions or not at all
sawmill......Do you have a plan? If so, I believe you'll have solved the traffic congestion problem in the NE.
they are excepting that responsibility and doing it on their own. one wreck at a time. Kudos to you people.
When the hell did this happen? I live in Waste Haven and was out and about including using I95 and never saw a thing...
WOW Stang, really.
Yeah, left the abode at 1030 hours was out and about for a few hours, returned several hours later and did stuff around the house for the remainder of the sunny day. Did I miss something, it was sunny on Sunday and the roads were open for me... The only snow I had was a dusting in the am, yes, it was very windy...but I already knew it would be. I saw no closing of I95, nor did I see any accidents...guess i was lucky...
AM Stang, I lived in Litchfield County growing up and moved South with my parents, who are both now gone.
Ah.. thanks, my mom is down in SC.. been there 12 years or so.. I hear you guys had a nice cold spell this weekend, comparable to ours.
Sure did and they are calling for another front later this evening with another chance of snow. I am ready for spring. I have the garden plowed and all then we get this. Dang Friday it was 63 and Saturday it was 32 go figure. We can not control mother nature period.
Carol
50 here, rare ,going to grill out and take a ride. suppose to snow and drop to 10 tonight.
Wow we are only at 48, 10 I do not think
I could do that I am ready for spring.
Anyone catch this. It should be Charleston, SC ..... Particularly hard hit was Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, where 84 flights were canceled. The storm dropped flurries as far south as Charleston, N.C.
I was going to fly in there.....but my arms got tired.....(ba dum da dum)
LOL are you not suppose to be coming south soon?
Was Carol, but yet one more canceled contract. makes 14 since last nov. 6 others are on hold for now.
Dang that bites
sign of the times. At least i paid my house off years ago and my bills are paid for about anouther 6 weeks.
Sparks! LOL!
Maybe I just have too much common sense, but if bad weather is predicted and it's a weekend, I JUST STAY HOME. If it's a workday, I JUST STAY HOME. I don't need a wrecked car, hospital bills or a trip to the morgue. No job is worth it. Maybe if the auto insurance companies denied coverage for a wreck from driving in this type of weather, maybe people would use their brains and not drive, especially when the local officials tell them to stay off the roads. But it's like shooting off a starting gun at a race when they are told not to drive in the bad weather. How many can get in their cars and start driving before anyone else does? There is absolutely nowhere anyone needs to be to justify driving in that type of weather.
enid......I know a lot of people that want YOUR JOB, because if they stayed home every time it snowed in the North East, they wouldn't have a job!
And what exactly do you do when your at work and the weather falls apart? Stay at work until the storm is over and all cleaned up? if the weather is bad, slow down a bit and get there safely. Probably the biggest tool you can use to improve your chances is a GOOD set of snow tires...not all seasons, but SNOW tires. Staying at home with your tail between your legs is not always possible.
unfortunately the standard in the north east is that if the public transportation is running you have to go to work, no excuses. now with schools they changed the policy because when i was growing up it had to predict to snow more than a foot for them to close the schools. in college in the north east, it had to snow more than four feet for them to close the schools and i am talking over say a weekend where it actually snoweld like 7 feet one year - yeah lovely weather we were having. they closed the school for like a day or two just to make the pathways to the quad and after that, back to school. i remember thinking i cant see over the piles, shucks the basketball players couldnt see over the piles. it was ugly
How about "stay home if you can't drive in snow conditions"? Why cause an accident that hurts so many people because YOU can't drive in snow? You know who you are, right? And getting out in a car when you know you are incapable of driving safely in snowy/icy conditions IS just as deadly as someone holding a gun and pointing it at strangers who just happen to be there.
More than a dozen collisions damaged 30 cars? 30 divided by 2 = O.K. todays math. More then a dozen.
According to the National Highway Traffic Administration there are 5.25 million driving accidents that take place per year. Statistics show that each year,43,000 or more of the United States’ population die due to vehicular accidents and around 2.9 million people end up suffering light or severe injuries.
When that old steam whistle blows, there ain't nothin you gonna do 'bout it. This old world is a dangerous place---Cars, planes, guns, ladders, viruses, mold, bacteria, storms, etc. Have a nice day.
Too bad some people look at it that way though.
OMG. God is good.
Well, you all have to slow down and pay attention when you are driving. Those of us with excellent driving records for all of our lives know that. Driving in snow is easy. But, you have to adjust your technique a little bit to manage the highway. Keep the two second count between you and the vehicle in front of you for best results in safety. Chains are no longer allowed, but if you have a front-wheel drive, this is going to keep you safer than a rear-wheel drive vehicle. Keep an emergency kit with flares in your vehicle and emergency food. Drive into your skid - and do not apply the brakes on black ice. Those with rear-wheel drive vehicles like small pickups should distribute sand bags or other level-weighted objects over the wheel base in your truck bed to give it more weight. Keep a shovel in your car. If you stop on the road - activate your hazard lights. Buy storm-resistant windshield wipers. Keep your radio low so that you can hear the plows coming up from behind you - you know - all of these important things that we learn as youth taking Driver's Education at Spaulding High School.
I'm very happy I'm not there right now. God delayed the bad weather until I left. Must have been a reason. I'm joking.
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Another bit of advise: Go to a shopping center parking lot late at night after a snow and practice. That is how I learned and taught my kids how to handle a car in the snow. It's also a lot of fun.
How many people drive WHITE cars in the snow up North ? duh!
The bigger question of stupidity is how many drive them, during snow, without their lights on... you'd be surprised....
Come on down South to the Gulf Coast and you will not have that problem. Average temp where I live has been in the 50's for the months of Jan & Feb.
Can you line me up with a job that's got benefits and will allow me to own my own home and send my kids to college without being in debt for the next 40 years AND still drive a half-way decent car?
If so....tell me where to apply! Or........ are you just trying to get someone to move there and get trapped into a downward spiral so that chicken suppliers, fish packers contractors and wood products companies have another layer of cheap labor to use up? I hear the Illegal Aliens are even going back home.
On my way lacarnut...where do you live? figure id crash at your place, well until you run out of beer anyway, so stock up.
Ban assault cars.
No more than one car to a family. Don't laugh, I bet some idiot is already thinking about it.
I would love to be able to leave work when an afternoon storm is forecast, or come in late upon waking to icy conditions, or stay home altogether when there are hazardous road conditions. But, in order not to be docked a day's pay and use a vacation or sick day, and accumulate "demerits" for doing so, I have to brave the elements to get to my job. Sometimes driving in those conditions is unavoidable, so don't be so quick to judge and call someone stupid for being in a situation like this before you know the reasons behind their being behind the wheel.