Big Snowfall Storm Totals:Most Cold Day Of Earth

It was a certifiable "snow day" but not in the sense of a casual day out. Coleraine were on vacation already, and in many cases their parents had time off from work.
As the snow piled total, the storm also dampened holiday sales after the retail sales in the Northeast region and forced many people to adjust their travel plans on his return from visits with family.


But if all that was a disappointment to some residents of the east coast, the time could be seen as positive for some of the same reasons: relatively minimal disruption of school and working hours. It will ask the officials say "stay home" on the day that is exactly what millions of people were already doing.
If the storm had arrived seven days later, instead of Dec. 26, which have disrupted airports in a day trip even busier - and the region would have had no "blizzard of 2010" in his books registration.
Whatever the views on the timing and impact of the storm were considerable:
• In New Jersey, the epicenter of the storm, acting governor and Senate President Stephen Sweeney declared a state of emergency. "The most important thing for residents to do today is to be safe," he said, closing government offices and urging people to register with elderly neighbors and "looking at each other."
• three major New York airports were closed by snow and struggled to reopen in the afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration, said he hoped the John F. Kennedy International Airport Newark Liberty International Airport reopened at 6 pm According to officials, the passengers were being offered blankets and cots, but some passengers said they could not access their bags of clothes or toiletries.
• The storm kept people away from the post-holiday sales in shopping centers, but may have served as a catalyst for additional online shopping.
• Wind gusts of up to 80 mph knocked out power in some places. About 30,000 customers were in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, particularly south of Boston and Cape Cod, reported profits. power outages were scattered from Virginia to the coast of Maine, who also faced by coastal flooding last week.
• road traffic was light, but grunted and slippery, even in some plow truck stuck. Virginia State Police received 3,000 calls to emergency road on Sunday alone, 67 injuries but no fatalities. In North Carolina, the National Guard was activated Saturday night to assist in emergency transport.
• Snow accumulation ranged from mild - five inches in parts of North Carolina - nearly a meter in some areas further north. On Monday, the snow gave way to greater visibility. But the winds remained. For Tuesday and the rest of the week, temperatures were expected to reach record highs above zero. But declines in some places could be about 10 degrees F.
• Although there is nothing Florida snow, is preparing for freezing temperatures at high pressure winds drive cold air from the north west to the south. Temperatures are expected to drop into single digits early Tuesday in southern Florida, which is expected to threaten fruit and vegetable crops.