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To: SiouxPal who wrote (156494)	12/19/2008 8:25:47 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361718

Season’s First Snowstorm Hits ______________________________________________________________ By JACK HEALY The New York Times December 20, 2008 Airplanes huddled at their gates, schools closed and salt trucks skittered across icy highways on Friday as the winter’s first major storm clawed its way across the country, blasting millions of Americans in the Midwest and Northeast with snow squalls and blistering winds. The weather grounded traffic at many of the nation’s major airports, and runways were closed for much of the morning at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. More than 300 flights were canceled at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and more than 650 flights were canceled at the three airports in the New York area. Planes bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City were being delayed three hours and 20 minutes while flights into LaGuardia were being delayed two hours, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Flights into Newark International Airport were lagging five hours behind schedule. Road travel was treacherous from county roads in Iowa to interstates in Massachusetts as the storm shellacked highways with a layer of treacherous black ice and frosted it with several inches of snow. In one corner of northeast Iowa, officials were forced to pull snowplows off the road because of whiteout conditions. Isolated power failures were reported across the Midwest and Northeast, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Ice-laden trees snapped power lines from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to New Hampshire, and residents of Holden, Mass., were forced to stoke their woodstoves and light candles while they waited for electricity to be restored. The National Weather Service said that the storm would slam Connecticut and Massachusetts with greater force than other states in the Northeast, predicting that they would be blanketed with as much as 14 inches of snow. In New York City, snow was glazing the trees in Central Park while city officials prepared the snowplows and trucks for up to 5 inches of snow. Upstate New York and parts of New England were bracing for more than a foot of snow, which was forecast to fall at one to two inches an hour through Saturday. Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts urged all non-emergency state employees to take a snow day on Friday, and the state asked drivers to stay off the roads as much as they could on Friday afternoon, to provide elbow room for snow plows and sand trucks, and to ease the evening commute. “Obviously, we don’t control Mother Nature and here she comes again, packing another wallop,” Mr. Patrick said. Residents of Michigan and Illinois awoke to white rooftops and nightmare commutes on Friday morning as the icy storm swept its way east, tracking across radar maps like a Technicolor bruise. About a foot of snow — whipped by wind gusts of up to 25 to 30 m.p.h. — fell in parts of Michigan. In Detroit, almost 8 inches had fallen by midafternoon. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company