Four dead as winter storm hits Northeast with 3 feet of snow

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Source: NBC News

Large parts of the eastern United States woke Thursday to more than 3 feet of snow as a major winter storm hit parts of New York and Pennsylvania, led to hundreds of car accidents and is suspected in the deaths of at least four people.

By morning, more than 40 inches had fallen in the New York cities of Binghamton and Endicott and in Litchfield, Pennsylvania.

More than 10 inches of snow and sleet covered New York's Central Park as of morning, surpassing the 4.8 inches that fell all last winter, the National Weather Service said. Lanes on the Henry Hudson Bridge were closed after a 19-car collision amid the storm, according to the NYPD, which urged people to stay home.

Nearly 10,000 customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were without power as of Thursday morning.



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[Arne]

1. Used to call it Lake Effect.

The drifts, they can cover a house.

[cstanleytech]

2. Yup though when I lived in Ohio we never really saw in the Akron area what

they can get up around near the lake.

[whistler162]

5. Nope this was a true Nor'Easter

since it came up the coast instead of across Lake Erie or Lake Ontario which is what defines a lake effect storm. Nice thing about Syracuse NY area is we are betwixt and between northern and southern snow belts unless the winds turn wrong. Only about 4 inches here. Just glad the school district I was scheduled to work in today while mostly remote had a snow day so I didn't have to drive 55 miles south. Friday is another story but the roads should be mostly clear.

[Vinca]

3. It was almost 6 dead. We just came in from trying to clear about 2 feet of the stuff out of the

driveway. The tractor we use to plow kept getting stuck because it was ice underneath. The job still isn't completely done, but at least the ambulance can get in if we need it. A car parked across the road while we were finishing up. I wasn't sure if he was using the WiFi hot spot in that location or was trying to determine if he'd need to call EMTs for the two 70-somethings on their last legs clearing snow.

[fearnobush]

4. Nearly 8" fell where I live.

In Central NJ near the coast. We had inches of sleet making up part of that total. Winds were intense with blizzard conditions for a time.

[paleotn]

6. We got a foot, but I'm not complaining....

The folks south of us got hammered.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. We got hit here, at least 3 feet out there, everything closed and the roads are impassible

It's going to take a long time to clean this up. This is an hour north of Albany, just south of Lake George. And on Wednesday we still had nothing...