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| East coast winter storm: 10 governors declare state of emergency – live | |
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| Flooding is a serious danger for New Jersey, especially in shore towns like Brigantine, where high tide hit around 8am. | |
| Video from Brigantine seawall #sjjonas #flooding #brigantine #jerseyshore @ACPressSkeldon @ThePressofAC pic.twitter.com/qnta9QIzED | |
| Flooding has not quite reached the devastating surge of hurricane Sandy, but it’s serious nonetheless, and could cut some towns off from the rest of the state. | |
| Current view of JFK in Sea Isle #6abcAction #stormjonas pic.twitter.com/tLwlMqZnqF | |
| In New York, the conditions are blinding – the wind is strong enough to make the snowflakes sting. | |
| @EricHolthaus Near whiteout conditions in Greenwich Village. Wind really cranking now. pic.twitter.com/axFQMnMdkM | |
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| Postcards of the east coast, blizzard edition. | |
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| “We’re New Yorkers, we’re tough, but I don’t care how superb a driver you are, I don’t care how great a four-wheel-drive vehicle you have,” was governor Andrew Cuomo’s good morning to New York on CNN this morning. | |
| “My strong advice is unless it’s truly an emergency, people have no business being on the roads.” | |
| Cuomo noted that the National Weather Service increased its predicted snowfall for New York, from 12in to 16-24in. “We’re afraid as the conditions continue to deteriorate that roads could be come impassable and then the situations compounds.” | |
| Kathryn Garcia, New York City’s sanitation commissioner and the woman who leads the city’s small army of plows, salt trucks and crews, also urged people to stay off the roads. “These are conditions that are dangerous for our professional drivers to be in and you really cannot be on the road.” | |
| “This is an extremely difficult storm to fight,” she told the network. “It’s falling so fast that you’re going to face very very difficult conditions.” | |
| Cuomo also explained that his “worst case scenario” of “negative synergy” is flooding. “The snow is one thing, we can deal with snow. It’s the compounding effect and negative synergy if you will. You put the snow together with gusts of wind up to 60mph and you have places like Long Island and coastal areas and flooding.” | |
| He said that he waited to declare a state of emergency in New York until Saturday as to impede commerce as little as possible. “There’s a cost to basically closing New York City, and you really don’t want to do it unless you have to do it. You have to do it when it becomes a public safety issue and this morning i believe it became a public safety issue.” | |
| Governor Chris Christie had a similar message for his state of New Jersey, where in some places the snow is falling 2-3in an hour. Christie said the national guard was on standby and the state ready to handle the storm – but that people should stay home and report power outages immediately to their utility providers and police. He said there are shelters in every county of the state. | |
| “For everybody, please stay inside, please don’t drive today unless it is an absolute emergency.” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the blizzard pummeling the eastern United States, from Arkansas to Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, where the view outside the Guardian – usually of the Brooklyn Bridge ad the East River – now shows a blizzard. | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the blizzard pummeling the eastern United States, from Arkansas to Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, where the view outside the Guardian – usually of the Brooklyn Bridge ad the East River – now shows a blizzard. |
| Ten governors have declared a state of emergency, as did the mayor of Washington DC, a city in the bullseye of the storm. Fourteen inches of snow have fallen on the nation’s capital, there are 21ft waves being reported off the Delaware coast, and life up and down the east coast has slid to a stop. | Ten governors have declared a state of emergency, as did the mayor of Washington DC, a city in the bullseye of the storm. Fourteen inches of snow have fallen on the nation’s capital, there are 21ft waves being reported off the Delaware coast, and life up and down the east coast has slid to a stop. |
| The National Weather Service has predicted the storm could bring snowfall to rival the biggest blizzards on record, and warned of high surf, gusting winds, and floods for coastal towns and cities. Governors and mayors have warned residents to stay indoors and off the streets for their own safety – and stressed the danger of blinding snow carried by intense winds. | The National Weather Service has predicted the storm could bring snowfall to rival the biggest blizzards on record, and warned of high surf, gusting winds, and floods for coastal towns and cities. Governors and mayors have warned residents to stay indoors and off the streets for their own safety – and stressed the danger of blinding snow carried by intense winds. |
| Those dangers were made clear on Friday. North Carolina police reported hundreds of traffic accidents, and authorities in several states attributed eight deaths to the icy roads and weather. Airports around the region canceled more than 7,600 flights, leaving thousands (including several reporters for the Guardian) stuck in travel limbo. | Those dangers were made clear on Friday. North Carolina police reported hundreds of traffic accidents, and authorities in several states attributed eight deaths to the icy roads and weather. Airports around the region canceled more than 7,600 flights, leaving thousands (including several reporters for the Guardian) stuck in travel limbo. |
| Stay tuned for all the latest as the snowstorm swirls through the lives of some 50 million people. | Stay tuned for all the latest as the snowstorm swirls through the lives of some 50 million people. |
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| Maraithe Thomas | Maraithe Thomas |
| A reminder from Guardian US style chief Maraithe Thomas, in case you’re wondering why we haven’t anthropomorphized a blizzard. | A reminder from Guardian US style chief Maraithe Thomas, in case you’re wondering why we haven’t anthropomorphized a blizzard. |
| We do not use the winter storm names that the Weather Channel comes up with. They come up with these names for marketing purposes, and they are not recognized by the National Weather Service. | We do not use the winter storm names that the Weather Channel comes up with. They come up with these names for marketing purposes, and they are not recognized by the National Weather Service. |
| So this weekend’s blizzard is not called Winter Storm Jonas or Storm Jonas or Jonas. It is just a storm. It’s called storm. | So this weekend’s blizzard is not called Winter Storm Jonas or Storm Jonas or Jonas. It is just a storm. It’s called storm. |