Snow Bogs Down New York Region
NEW YORK—(UPI) A 31-hour killer storm, which failed as furiously as the blizzard of '88 swirled out to sea today leaving the nation's largest city paralyzed under more than 13 inches of snow.
At least a dozen deaths were blamed on the storm, marked by gale force winds, sub-freezing temperatures and high tides that endangered shoreline homes.
GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH piled drifts as high as six feet even in the sky-scraper-protected midtown area. As of 3:10 a.m. EST more than 13 inches of snow were measured by the weather bureau since the storm drove into the metropolitan area at 8:07 p.m. EST Sunday. The weather bureau said the storm ended at 3:10 a.m. EST today.
EVERY MODE OF traveling from walking to jet airline traffic practically came to a halt.
Public schools in the city and in surrounding suburban areas were ordered closed. All Roman Catholic schools in the archdiocese of New York closed their doors today.
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Mayor Robert F. Wagner issued an emergency appeal to motorists. Drivers were urged to keep off the roads today "to help free the streets for ambulances, police, fire and other emergency vehicles, including thousands of pieces of sanitation department snow removal equipment."
Continuing high winds made digging out virtually an impossibility. Accumulations of a "couple of more inches" was forecast by the weather bureau early today. But it also warned that the gale force winds and
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HOWEVER, the weather bureau said the snowfall—which drove in on the area horizontally—tapered off to flurries by dawn.
The police department reported that most of the deaths were the result of heart attacks or exhaustion, striking persons shoveling snow or attempting to brave the storm on foot.
Major airports, including Kennedy International and LaGuardia, came to a virtual halt as snow removal crews lost the battle to keep runways open and visibility dropped to near-zero. Overseas flights were diverted to Canada and inland airports as far as Detroit. Most of the airports remained closed throughout the night.
Thousands of office workers were dismissed early in the afternoon but they found railroad schedules had tone with the wind and snow. Jams developed at Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminals with trains running hours late.
Schools were closed by the hundreds in more than a dozen states. Highways were either closed or extremely hazardous in nearly all parts of the East. The American Medical Association issued warnings against frostbite and shoveling snow.
COMMUTER TRAFFIC today was expected to be as hectic as yesterday's when moving in and out of the city became a white-draped, wind-swept nightmare.
At the height of the storm about 300 motorists were stranded in their cars on one parkway alone in the Rockaway area. More than 135 students and teachers were stranded in the Riverhead Junior High school and spent last night in the building on the northshore of the far reaches of Long Island. Crewmen from the Suffolk County Air Force base and civil defense units supplied the children and teachers with cots, blankets and food as they huddled in classrooms and the school's gymnasium.
The gales piled up six foot drifts in many areas. Gale warnings were posted along the Atlantic from Maine to New Jersey and from Virginia to North Carolina.
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SOME LIKE IT, SGME DON'T—The snow outside her window makes a pretty scene, but it forces Beth Heppes (left), LaGrange, Ill., sophomore, indoors to study. Like most other KU students she is preparing for first semester final examinations. The snow and cold doesn't seem to
mind Wonjoo Kim (right) too much. The one-year-old boy is held by his father, Young Kim, Seoul, Korea, senior. Father and son are sledding on the hill near the Memorial Campanile. (Kansan photos by Don Black.)
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