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Most roadways in the region were cleared and mass transit was returning to a normal schedule by Friday afternoon. Long delays remained in effect at airports, and more than 2,300 flights were canceled nationwide.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and governor's office have issued relatively few communiqu s over the course of the storm. The office of Governor Tom Corbett tweeted a cautionary message:
How much did it snow in Central Park? Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, formerly of the Guardian US, calls clown on the official measurement of the National Weather Service observation station there, known as KNYC:
Hats off to the videographers over at the Wall Street Journal for this cool time-lapse of the snow settling in and being continuously cleared in Manhattan. Be sure to catch the sidewalk-clearing bit:
Still planning Friday travel? Read our guide , assembled by the Guardian's Kayla Epstein (@ kaylaepstein ), for the latest information on road conditions, airport delays, mass transit including bus travel whatever your mode of transportation, it's likely in there.
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Governor Dan Malloy of Connecticut has held a briefing to warn residents about the hazardous chill ahead. By Friday evening, his office advised, Connecticut will see temperatures hitting -15 in some parts of the state, manhattan boutique hotels with wind chills hitting -25.
At 3 pm Friday, hours after the last snow flakes are scheduled to fall, Elmo Baldassari manhattan boutique hotels will be leaving his post, creating manhattan boutique hotels one of the most critical vacancies that incoming mayor Martin J. Walsh will have to fill.
By Thursday evening, the mayor-elect had not announced any appointments to his new administration, not even a chief of staff who might advise him in hiring. But when pressed for reassurance, a Walsh spokeswoman said there is a plan in place for snow management, one of the duties that can make or break a new mayor.
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At least 9 people were killed in storm-related incidents nationally, the AP reported : "Slick roads were blamed for traffic deaths in Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. Authorities said a 71-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease froze to death after she wandered away from her rural western New York home. A worker at a suburban Philadelphia salt storage facility was killed when a 100-foot-tall pile of road salt fell and crushed him."
New Jersey manhattan boutique hotels announced its freeways had reopened by 10am. New Jersey transit trains are running, as are all New York City public transit systems, with delays. Boston's Logan airport was operating with delays. JFK airport had just begun to dig out. The Long Island Railroad and MTA were running with delays.
In about five minutes Bill de Blasio , the freshly manhattan boutique hotels minted mayor of New York City, is scheduled to give an update on snow removal and other storm response. You can watch it here . We'll embed the video when he starts speaking. Be advised that he's habitually manhattan boutique hotels late.
In New York City, it's the first big citywide challenge for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is less than 72 hours in office. The city announced school closures overnight and has activated its PlowNYC snowplow tracker feature manhattan boutique hotels , which maps in real time which streets have been plowed (the tracker was unloved by plow drivers when Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced it, because it requires GPS responders on trucks; it was hated by New Yorkers because at first it didn't work very well).
One big difference between de Blasio and Bloomberg emerged early in the storm: Bloomberg did not have a popular teenage kid with crowds of friends lobbying on social media for a citywide snow day. Late Thursday, Dante de Blasio, 16 , wrote in a message that escaped his private Facebook page that he was getting a blizzard of school cancellation requests.
We've put together a resources page here for the latest information on the storm and unfolding emergency response. Visit the office of emergency management page in your state for the latest updates on dangerous weather conditions, travel restrictions and crisis response.
Service forecaster Jared Guyer told Reuters it was still snowing in some places , such as Boston, "but we are probably manhattan boutique hotels past the peak in terms of intensity at this point". He added that the bitter cold and snow-scattering winds showed no signs of letting manhattan boutique hotels up.
Washington has received more than 2 inches (5 cm), of snow, Baltimore some 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 cm), Philadelphia roughly 5 inches (13 cm) and Hartford 6 to 10 inches (15-25 cm), according to Reuters.
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The National Weather Service said 21 inches (0.53m) of snow had fallen in Boxford, just north of Boston, by Thursday night, while other parts of Massachusetts had 18 inches (0.46m). Upstate New York had 18 inches manhattan boutique hotels of snow while New York City was expected to get about eight inches (0.2m).
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Cape Cod, coastal areas north and south of Boston and part of Maine as well as New York's Long Island, where up to 10 inches (0.25m) of snow could fall and winds could gust to 45mph.