NEW YORK: More than 40 million people were under blizzard warnings in the northeast United States on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban.
The so-called “Nor´easter” pummeled the region overnight, disrupting flights and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until midday on Monday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighboring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions.
Some were frustrated by the region´s second major winter storm in weeks. “I´m sick of it. I don´t want to see no more snow,” Vincent Greer, a resident of Wildwood, New Jersey, said as he shoveled outside his building.
Meanwhile, at New York´s Grand Central station, others were admiring the city blanketed in snow. “It´s beautiful,” Chris Crowell, 45, told AFP after a walk with a friend. “So much snow, it´s just gorgeous. We did not expect to be out this long.”
The National Weather Service warned that blizzard conditions and “crippling impacts” would continue in the northeast US for much of Monday. As of 11:00 am (1600 GMT), more than 5,500 flights in or out of the United States were canceled and hundreds more delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware.
