December 27, 2010

THOUSANDS STRANDED BY 2-FOOT BLIZZARD IN NORTHEAST

Thousands of travelers trying to get home after the holiday weekend sat bored and half-awake in airports and shiver aboard stuck buses and warren trains Monday, stranded by a blizzard that slammed the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow.

 
"People are fatigued They want to get home," sighed Eric Schorr, marooned at New York's Kennedy Airport since Sunday afternoon by the storm, which work its way up the coast from the Carolinas to Maine with wind up to 80 mph that whirled the snow into deep drifts across streets, railroad tracks and runways.snowstorm totals included a foot in Tidewater, Va., and Philadelphia, 29 inches in parts of northern New Jersey, 2 feet north of New York City, and more than 18 inches in Boston.

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