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Subscribe to RSSPeople across the Midwest are digging out from the snow after a big storm passed through, resulting in difficult commutes and school closures. NBC's John Yang reports.
A winter storm that raked the Great Lakes states was headed for the Northeast, which braced for its third straight weekend of significant snow.
The storm was expected to pelt New England's coastal areas from northern Connecticut to southern Maine with a mix of snow and rain late on Friday, said National Weather Service meteorologist John Foley. Snow was predicted for Saturday, with up to a foot possible in central Massachusetts, he told Reuters.
The Weather Channel forecast that southern parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and northern and central Massachusetts could see snowfall of 6 inches or more over the weekend. Between 2 to 5 inches of snow may fall in Boston, and the storm will likely dump rains from New York City to Philadelphia, it said.
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Crews in Massachusetts, which has already exhausted its $45 million storm budget, readied piles of salt and sand and thousands of pieces of equipment, NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston reported.
The storm made a mess of things Friday in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In Minnesota alone, the State Patrol said there were 124 crashes during the morning commute, killing one driver and injuring 23, NBC affiliate KARE in Minneapolis reported.
Ice complicated travel in Ohio. In Cleveland, a United Airlines 737 skidded off the runway into grass and snow after landing from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There were no reported injuries, and the passengers were taken by bus to the terminal.
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O’Hare airport in Chicago reported delays of an hour and a half, and Cincinnati reported more than 45 minutes. The airport in Kansas City, shut down earlier this week in heavy snow, reopened, but most morning flights were delayed. A handful of flights remained cancelled or delayed Friday evening.
In Cincinnati, a semi lost control on an icy overpass, leaving one wheel dangling over the edge. No one was hurt, but part of Interstate 71 was closed for a time, and the truck was leaking fuel, NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati reported.
A day earlier, it was the Plains turn. A United regional jet from Denver got stuck in the snow after landing at the airport in Wichita, Kan. Workers tried to clear a path so that buses could collect the passengers, but the tarmac was too slick, and the plane was stuck for about two hours.
Passengers said that flight attendants passed out cookies and that passengers and crew stayed upbeat.
Record snowfall in Wichita, Kansas, creates havoc at the airport where crews had to dig out a plane stuck on the tarmac. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
"By far the most entertaining delay I've ever had in my life," passenger Joshua Locke said. "This has just been laughable to me."
Reuters contributed to this report.
Much of the Midwest is covered in a blanket of white as a massive winter storm has covered parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas with over a foot of snow. NBC's John Yang reports.
This story was originally published on Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:32 AM EST
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"Winter storm *****'s the Midwest
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Winter Storm ....does prep work for spring floods....it the Midwest.
I just can't believe the amount of people that hop into their little cars and go out in stuff like this! Even trucks were getting stranded...do you really have that @$$hole of a boss that you can't call in for one day!!!
Re:IA Scooter Tramp
Hey man we're in a drought situation here, we'll take what we can get!
Famous Amos- some people cannot call out so easily. I am a nurse- weather is no excuse to not be in. I drove in through the 35 inches we had 2 weeks ago (I am in maine) and my husband is a cop- he can't call out for weather either. As a matter of fact, we sleep at our jobs if possible when bad weather is expected, but it isn't always feasible with childcare. We have one 4wd vehicle and one teeny commuter car. Thankfully, I got the 4wd the day of the 35 inches! It was rough even in that.
I got a little bit of a sunburn today in Tennessee...... LOL. Just sayin'...
Sorry for your extra bad weather this year, but ours will come eventually. It has been great weather here in the great Pacific Northwest, but about every 7 years we have a bad one (last one was in 2008). So ours is coming...........
This is just called Winter in the NorthEast.
Famous Amos the weather in St. Louis is extremely unpredictable. I can't count how many times we were supposed to get a massive ice or snow storm and it couldn't get through the uber dry atmosphere. So we tend to take a "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude. This is, after all, the Show Me State. This time the weather man was right plus some. Luckily my work let me leave before the big stuff hit.
For all who were wanting snow, here ya go!
Gee thanks Ray..
There ya go folks ...its Ray's fault.
Hey Ray......wanna see another use for a snow shovel?
In our state they say there is not any scenery because the road crews cut through the hills and everything is flat. When it snows even a foot we just keep driving 55 while everyone else is stuck at the bottom of the scenic hill
ROFL iast
wonder who will file the first suit for that UA that skidded off the runway? Thats what this damn world has come too!
We need that snow here in the Northwest, we're coming up short this year it looks like. The Midwest should count their blessings, they've got water.
@citizen19, they have said we could get up to 2' or more in the higher elevations. Will make the ski lodge people happy, and the skier's happy. But you don't hear about that on the nation news. And yes, we can always use more snow in the higher elevations.
Citizen19 What dream world are you living in? I live in Kansas and we're in moderate to severe drought in my area.
The reason we are short on water here in the Pacific N.W. is because we are stupid and sell it to Calif. Then we here can pay higher rates. Grrrrrrr!
gardenchick I'm with you. I'm in St. Louis and the mighty Mississippi is at its lowest in a while. This snow is much needed.
This moisture is a long awaited blessing for Kansas and our wheat crop, for sure, but these folks just drive like maniacs just because they have an SUV, won't listen to the gov when he says not to drive, and everyone has been through this before and this one will be different and bang in the ditch.
How much of the Kansas corn is Monsanto GMO ?
And this storm makes that differs from the norm ...exactly how?
Driving like maniacs is a given, until they find out their SUV's will do everything except stop and turn.
Definition's, for those of you who may not know....
1. Rain...water from the sky
2. Freezing rain....water from the sky that's cold
3. Snow...freezing water from the sky that got cold and put a white coat on.
4. Perspiration...water from your body that comes from dealing with point 3 no matter how damn cold it is.
5. Beer...water especially distilled and made to deal with point 4
6. Nag, women who causes you to deal with points 3-5 in the first place.
GM Scooter
I imagine, according to the forecast, you are snowed in up to your errr, elbows? It seems like Wichita, KS got dumped on etc. Hope you have enough beer in the fridge or at least packed into the snow!
GM Jack
Officialy we got 3-6 here in extreme eastern IA. shoveled about 3 inchs. drifts of a couple feet , bit worse 30-50 miles west. or south but about a normal snowfall. Took a bus home from the club last night and discovered three things
1. Evidently I can drive a bus in the snow
2. Not very well from the looks of it
3. The cops cant find squat around here, hell a bus that big on a main street parked ( kinda) in a small 2 foot snowdrift and then plowed in, and yet its still there.
Scooter
Better make that 4 things you discovered: You don't have a license to drive a bus!
Wait til the cops realize that a bus is missing!!! Glad to hear you got home safe
1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor!!!
Tramp, what the hell you mean YOU drove it? You don't remember thinking I was trying to steal your vehicle (I WASN'T, just thought it was mine), so you started chasing after me with a big rock in your hand. I jumped into that bus simply to save myself from you. But you were able to grab onto the back before I was able to get any speed up & crawl through a back window. For several miles we played a game of "You coming towards the front with the rock, me flooring the accelerator to knock you backwards". You finally got smart & THREW the rock, missing my head but breaking my hand. When I jerked away from the steering wheel in pain, that's when the bus crashed.
I can't remember much after that though, so not sure how we both got back home.
P.S. That blond at the bar was REALLY hot, wasn't she ... that one we both danced with & almost got in a fight over. Or maybe we DID get in a fight. If so, then maybe I WAS trying to do something to your vehicle. Don't think I'll be making that particular bar again. Too much trouble in that place.
@ IA ScooterTramp
It takes a foot of snow to make 1 inch of rain. When we're short of moisture in the range of 20+ inches we'll take every bit we can get. But I wonder if you really understand what I'm saying here.
Everyone needs to relax. All of us baby boomers has seen more snow than they got. I remember snow that was over 4 feet that drifted in 20ft snow drifts where cranes had to remove it.
And people wonder why their flights get delayed. This could be you or far worse if it crashed.
Global farming is the cause.
Extreme to exceptional drought conditions exist here in Nebraska and many states. Last summer pastures burned up, so too even some irrigated crops. Both dry and wet seasons tend to be cyclical and, while not making it any easier, is expected. Rain and snow (we got 10+" of snow yesterday) is welcome.
Glad you said snow I was starting to cringe
@Ken GOOD!! Now Nebraska can leave Wyoming alone and stop calling for the release of water from our resevoirs, Causing our citizens to ration.
This snow will help the farmers but still they will be short moisture for the year. Higher grain prices next year?
Global warming !!!
An inconvenient lie.
Oy, one of you people again that don't read before you spout off. Global warming doesn't mean it's 100 degrees all year round. Global warming causes weather EXTREMES. Stronger snow storms, stronger thunderstorms, stronger hurricanes, etc. etc. If anything, all of this is supporting the global warming theory.
Except there is no evidence of that Jaime. The theory is incorrect. Nothing extreme about this except that winter got a late start and is turning out to be normal because we have an active storm track. You talk about this "extreme" weather theory, but don't seem to be able to back it up with evidence.
We'll take all the snow we can get! Water is water!
Thats what Bushes detainees said
Will the storm get a name once it hits the sissies on the East coast??
Yes, the New York Times has already named it...."Bush's Fault"
LOL
@JK I resemble that remark! I'm in northwest MA and know how to drive in the snow, and we don't drive in it even before our Governor tells us not to. example is the last storm we got. MA, CT & RI were the smart ones. Not so much for NY.
New Yorkers think they are invincable.
Gotta love that 2 feet of global warming....
You do realize global warming doesn't mean no snow right? It's about weather extremes and causes more intense storms...stronger snow storms, thunderstorms, hurricanes, etc. I swear people that use situations like this and say they are proof that global warming doesn't exist make me laugh. If anything, these extreme snowstorms prove it DOES exist.
You know nothing about weather and climate or you would not say such asinine things. When is a snowstorm labled as extreme? How do you define it? Why doesn't the National Weather Serivce label weather events as extreme? Because they're not. Only climate change liars call ordinary weather events extreme.
An every day or every other day occurance here in inland northwest..
Perfect for having a Subaru and love having mine-- snow..what snow
Hope you found a model that doesn't look like it came from the 70s
My 07 Forester is my first Subi...I love it too !!
It's a major change in the weather patterns ..not just a simple rise in all temps ! Once winds start to change ..so does the weather change from area to area .. Do these new records coincide with the old ones from place to place time wise !?
Weather patterns change daily, and have for millions of years.
Diesel fuel $4.19 a gallon. Four wheel drive, priceless!
Must be global warming that they got snow? Or is snow the norm?
For those who do not like snow - I saw a Robin today, Spring is not far behind.
Daisy Do 80+ here in central Fla
Had to turn on the a/c
Question for the media: Why are they 19year old "woman" and 18 year old "man" when they die by auto; but they become "children" when reported as firearms deaths?
Why did they blame the storm?
Because Obamacare defines them that way...up to age 26. I'm not making this up.
so that charlatan quack AlGore needs to go to Maine and pull up a lawnchair in his tank, shorts, and socks and spend a month outside so the dumass can 'cool down'. the fool!!
I bet the body shop's just love the fact that SUV owners don't listen to the weather channel and take there useless SUV's for a spin on the interstate...only wish I had a body shop.... let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I love watching the national news.
lol, drama dogs, snow in february... what is wrong w/ ppl
I just check the calendar and yep....it's February which means it's still winter and it usually snows in the winter.
let them sit in their cars and freeze if they are dumb enough to go out in this kind of weather, never underestimate the power of stupid...Canceled schools all over in my area and all it did was rain lol
2/22/13 That's Right this is OBAMA'S FAULT ! What ever happens OBAMA Did It !
Now one would think that the Commons Sense People of the Midwest would follow the example of the Govenors of East Coast States during a Major Snow Storm & Blizzard. DECLARE A EMERGENCY & CLOSE ALL HIGHWAYS EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES Talk about Dumb & Dumber insist on Driving a Vehicle that you obviously KNOW is going to get stuck in the DEEP Snow but You make the decision to drive anyway & get stranded in the middle of a Snow Storm WTF Over ? then don't ever wear winter clothing or snow boots & ya gotta walk for miles thru the DEEP Snow. Yep that's DUMB & DUMBER SPW in Alaska