A blizzard of potential historic threatened to strike the northeast, with A vengeance on Friday, up to 2 feet of snow, along the densely populated interstate 95 from New York to Boston and corridor beyond concerns.
From Pennsylvania to Maine, people rushed up hoarding food, shovel, things such as road ready to salt and sand, midway through what is a kind of winter.
In the first snow even drop, Boston, providence, Rhode Island, the Hartford, Connecticut, and other New England city cancel school Friday and airlines cut more than 1700 flights in the United States, the destruction of a ripple
The weather forecast says, it may have for the record books.
, in the soup, Massachusetts at the United States national weather service meteorologists Alan DengNa mu said: "this time did not appear every day. It will be a dangerous winter storm", "you need to go to the place, where (Friday) at and do not intend to leave."
Snow is expected to start on Friday morning, evening to Saturday's heaviest decline amount. A gust of wind can be up to 65 miles per hour. Widely worry about power failure, and coastal area flooding, still recovering Superstorm sandy in October.
Boston can get more than 2 inches of snow, and New York city is expected to 10 ~ 14 inches. Mayor Michael bloomberg said, plough, salt 250000 tons, is in on standby. In the south, Philadelphia has been looking for a possible 4 to 6 inches.
"We hope to predict exaggerated snow quantity, but you can never tell," bloomberg said, added that the bad weather at least in the weekend, arrived in traffic lighter, snow blowers to clear up the streets more easily.
Beauty iron said, the northeast train will stop running, on Friday afternoon. New York fashion week organizers - of concern a big tent a fashion show - said they will have additional staff to help snow removal and heat to add an additional layer of the site.
Parts, including the New Jersey and New York's long island, as well as part of the Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Hartford, new black text, Connecticut, providence blizzard warning issued. Extended to Maine, New Hampshire and warning.
The weather forecast says, in New England, it may prove to be in the history of the top ten in the snow, and even break Boston's record of 27.6 inches, in 2003. The last major New England southern snowfall in more than a year ago - Halloween 2011 tesla.
He said DengNa, New England south of less than half of the normal snow this season, but "we are in a hurry to catch up with a great." He added: "everyone will get covered with the snow."
Diane lopez is packed with the supermarket shopping Thursday in the United States Massachusetts gloucester, she said she went to different grocery store earlier in the day of the coastal fishery city, but it was too crowded. Lopez said, she has a sore throat, usually won't leave home, but have to pay for basic food - "and a lot of wine."
She smiled and excited storm is based on snow place is regular.
"Why do we New England's crazy, right?" She said.
In the United States Belmont, Massachusetts, in a supermarket, Susan Shaw lichtenstein stocking, and 1978 years of storms in the memory of her head. "This is panic shopping, so bread, milk, snow shovel, our snow shovel rest," she said.
In New Hampshire Dartmouth College (Dartmouth College students evan HuaXueDui diamonds and other members of the ivy league school winter carnival game to prepare.
"We feel very excited, because this is an unusual winter for us," he said. "We've been back and forth between has a solid cold snap, and then the rain wash everything away."
But he said, snow may have too many good things, this weekend: "for skiing, we hope to have a good hard surface, so it will be a severe mountain preparation."
Massachusetts governor DE val Patrick, the emergency state employees work from home on Friday, and urged private employers do the same.
Terence rodriguez forecast, in Boston luxury apartment building janitor, he says.
"He said," this is just another day in Boston, this can be expected, we in a small town, it was going to snow. "It's like the end of the world. It doesn't need to. People just put it developed acme.
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