Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors. "Whatever kind of system they had, it completely and utterly broke down," said passenger Fatimah Dahandari, who spent a night in Hartford, Connecticut's Bradley International Airport while trying to get to New York. "It looks like a refugee camp in here."
More than 4 million people in at least five states were without power Sunday as the storm moved offshore. Up to five deaths, some in traffic accidents, were blamed on the storm.
Dhandari said her Boston-to-New York flight diverted to Connecticut after being told there was a problem on a runway at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and the JetBlue plane did not have enough fuel to continue circling. Read More
7 comments (read or post your own):
12 hours of snow!?! I dont see a way it could cut 5 million without power? It does'nt in other counties¿!¿
Concered Reader
This is how war starts, typo's!
It's 4 million, sorry :P
At least they have something to blame now, last time they had to think of some poor unnamed scapegoat.
But a couple of inches of snow seems a strange excuse for that many people losing power.
That picture is not current - I remember seeing it last year when it was used for another story.
I Know, it was used to make a point, 4 million people didn't lose power when that picture was taken.
Just an observation: Early season snow is often very wet and the leaves are mostly still on the trees. Branches fall, lines get damaged. No big deal. Having lived in MI for 9 years, I know know about storms knocking out power to be sure. Just part of above-ground transmission lines. IMO, it's not even news no matter where it happens, unless it's an entire state or something like that.
4 million is 1/4 of the population of Holland.
I call that a "entire state".
More the 12 hours ago, when it begun it was already up to 2 million without power. I call that strainge.
Concerned Reader
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