Thanks to Starseed for this incredible coverage. Some readers disagree with me but I consider this a black weather operation, possibly HAARP, possibly scalar (Matthew Ward says the two are different), perhaps to prevent contamination of America by the fever of revolt hitting North Africa.
America braces for NEW snowstorms as country digs out from ‘bomb scene’ blizzard of ice and snow that crushed buildings and killed 12
MailOnline, Friday, Feb 04 2011 3PM 10°C 6PM 9°C 5-Day Forecast
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated 4th February 2011 Daily Mail Go Here
Video of the collapse of the Triton Technologies building under the weight of snow in Easton, Massachusetts yesterday (above) and of a Weather Channel anchor flipping out over the blizzard’s lightning (below)
As the deadly two-day blizzard finally passes, huge swathes of America must now brace for more snow and ice over the next three days as a storm brewing in the South and Texas is projected to move north by Saturday, dumping even more snow on top of already record-setting accumulation totals.
Snow is expected to fall over parts of Texas with rain over Louisiana, which will turn to snow over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. A separate snowstorm will blow over much of the West, just as Chicago is recovering from its most damaging snowstorm in decades.
* Snow and ice predicted across much of the country for Saturday
* At least 12 dead as most recent storm causes chaos in 30 states
* Temperatures plunge to 30 below as last storm passes
* Hundreds of thousands of people without power
* 13,000 flights already cancelled this week with more chaos expected as airports fight to open
* Storm was ‘worst in 50 years’
This week’s storm was so catastrophic that buildings were crushed under the weight of the ice and snow.
Nature’s power: Despite being built of brick and metal, the building collapsed as though it were made of tin foil
When technology fails: No one is believed to have been injured in the building’s collapse
WHERE IS MAYOR DALEY?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
As Chicago was paralysed by the worst storm in decades, Mayor Richard Daley was nowhere to be seen.
He was expected at a press conference on the storm on Wednesday, but instead his chief of staff Ray Orozco was left to face the cameras.
Daley will be out of office shortly, however, as a new mayor will be elected in a February 22 election.
The men currently running to replace Daley – including former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel – were out shovelling snow to try and win votes.
And the worst isn’t yet over for Americans, especially in the Midwest. Today the blizzard has passed – but as skies clear temperatures are expected to plunge to 30 below this morning.
In a region where hundreds of thousands of people have been left without power or transportation, it could prove deadly.
The sprawling system unloaded as much as two feet of snow, crippled airports and stranded drivers in downtown Chicago as if in a prairie blizzard.
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* A world of two halves! Map shows most of Northern Hemisphere is covered in snow
* ‘My terror drive through Australia’s 190mph monster cyclone’
* ‘It’s too early to say we dodged any bullets’: Queensland premier reveals no fatalities so far as Cyclone Yasi weakens
* Three people killed and five injured after SUV plunges into Oklahoma’s frozen Spring River
Much of Texas was under a hard freeze warning Wednesday; light snowfall stubbornly lingered into the night in Maine.
Officials in the Northeast had warned homeowners and businesses for days of the dangers of leaving snow piled up on rooftops.
As the 2,000-mile-long storm cloaked the region in ice and added inches to the piles of snow already settled across the landscape, the predictions came true.
Thousands inconvenienced: Cars sit abandoned on Chicago’s iconic Lake Shore Drive after drivers were forced to walk to safety during the storm. The drive is hoped to be cleared by this morning
Going nowhere: Cars sit in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, after accidents and drifting snow stranded the drivers during last night’s blizzard.
A scene from sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow? No, these are cars stuck in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, after accidents and drifting snow stranded the drivers during last night’s blizzard. As of late morning more than 20in of snow had fallen, making this snowstorm the third largest recorded in the city
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Enlarge A man waits for a Chicago Transit Authority bus (R) while another decides to walk through a snowstorm on the south side of Chicago, Illinois
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You waiting? I’m walking! While one man waits for a bus in Chicago, another decides to make his way on foot through a snowstorm. A woman, right, wades through a snow drift in the city that comes up to her waist
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Enlarge A woman walks through the high snow in Downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA on 02 February 2011
Enlarge Eileen Black takes pictures inside of a Chicago Transit bus that was stranded overnight. The blizzard caused havoc in a city well used to dealing with big snowfalls
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A woman makes her way along an icy pavement in New York, the colossal blizzard has roared across a third of the country
Enlarge A malfunctioning water sprinkler left a morning winter ice scape at an apartment complex in South Austin, Texas on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011
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From one end of the U.S. to the other the impact of the blizzard has been felt. Left, a woman makes her way along an icy pavement in New York while, right, ice covers a car in Austin, Texas
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Too fast to freeze: A lighthouse is pounded by waves on Lake Michigan as the storm dumped some 20 inches of snow on Chicago yesterday
In Middletown, Connecticut, the entire third floor of a building failed, littering the street with bricks and snapping two trees.
Acting Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said two workers fled when they heard a cracking sound.
‘It’s like a bomb scene,’ he said. ‘Thank God they left the building when they did.’
A petrol station canopy on New York’s Long Island collapsed, as did an aeroplane hangar near Boston, damaging aircraft.
Roof cave-ins also were reported in Rhode Island.
The University of Connecticut closed its hockey rink as a precaution because of the amount of ice and snow on the roof. The school hoped to have it inspected and reopened in time for a game Saturday.
Coming through: A snowplough clears a street in a suburban area of Chicago
Dude where’s my car? An abandoned vehicle is nearly completely buried in Chicago, left… as a student nearly disappears in a burst of snow as he sleds down a hill in Iowa City on a cookie sheet, right
Next stop please: The driver’s seat of a Chicago bus is covered in snow after the door was left open when the vehicle was abandoned in the storm
Right, Hanna Conger takes a picture of the aftermath of the snowstorm that dumped over two feet of snow in Chicago
Some places in the Northeast that have gotten more snow so far this winter than they usually get the whole season are running out of places to put it.
In Portland, Maine, the downtown snow-storage area was expected to reach capacity after this week’s storm – the first time in three years that has happened.
‘It’s not so much about ploughing as it is about where to put it,’ said Mike Schumaker, a contractor near Albany, New York. ‘We still have snow from Christmas that hasn’t melted.’
Snow totals in the Northeast hit their peak at several inches in New England, a far cry from the foot or more the region has come to expect with each passing storm in a season full of them.
Meanwhile, the Midwest was reeling from the storm’s wallop as the system swept eastward.
When it’s best to just walk: Abandoned cars sit in the northbound lane of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
Stand back! A man watches as large chunks of ice crash into the break wall at the Milwaukee Marina in Wisconsin after the storm yesterday
Snow accumulated inside this stranded Chicago Transit bus after the door was left open during the severe storm
Tens of millions of people stayed home yesterday. The hardy few Midwesterners who ventured out faced howling winds that turned snowflakes into face-stinging needles.
Chicago’s 20.2 inches of snow was the city’s third-largest amount on record.
Across the storm’s path, lonely commuters struggled against drifts three and four feet deep in eerily silent streets, some of which had not seen a plough’s blade since the snow started a day earlier.
Parkas and ski goggles normally reserved for the slopes became essential for getting to work.
‘This is probably the most snow I’ve seen in the last 34 years,’ joked 34-year-old Chicagoan Michael George.
‘I saw some people cross-country skiing on my way to the train. It was pretty wild.’
The white out rendered the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois virtually invisible on Wednesday
Crystal clear: Above and below, a thin layer of ice coats every inch of trees in Pennsylvania after the storm
Ice coated tree branches in Pennsylvania’s Rothrock State Forest
The system was blamed for at least 12 deaths, including a homeless man who burned to death on Long Island as he tried to light cans of cooking fuel and a woman in Oklahoma City who was killed while being pulled behind a truck on a sled that hit a guard rail.
Airport operations slowed to a crawl nationwide, and flight cancellations reached 13,000 for the week, making this system the most disruptive so far this winter.
A massive post-Christmas blizzard led to about 10,000 cancellations.
Chicago public schools cancelled classes for a second straight day. And the city’s iconic Lake Shore Drive remained shut down, nearly a day after drivers abandoned hundreds of vehicles stopped in their tracks by snow that drifted as high as the windshields.
Some motorists came away angry, frustrated that the city didn’t close the crucial thoroughfare earlier. Others were mad at themselves for going out during the storm or not using another route.
Beautiful but deadly: Ice-coated roads glint menacingly in the Pennsylvania sun after the storm yesterday
So do we: A Pennsylvania billboard takes on an ironic tone in the wake of the killer storm
‘In 31 years with the city, I haven’t experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive,’ said Raymond Orozco, chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley.
‘Hundreds of people were very inconvenienced, and we apologise for that.’
City crews who worked into the night Wednesday were aiming to have Lake Shore Drive passable for the morning rush hour.
Utility crews raced to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where freezing rain and ice brought down electrical lines.
Rolling blackouts were implemented across Texas, including in Super Bowl host city Dallas, because of high demand during a rare ice storm.
Total white-out: An image from Nasa’s Terra satellite shows the storm system as it raged on January 31
A graphic showing the system as it raged across the U.S. yesterday.The red and pink areas show where most of the snow is.
The outages would not affect Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington, said Jeamy Molina, a spokeswoman for utility provider Oncor. But other Super Bowl facilities, such as team hotels, were not exempt, she said.
The storm derived its power from the collision of cold air sweeping down from Canada and warm, moist air coming up from the South. Weather experts said La Nina, a temperature phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, also contributed.
‘The atmosphere doesn’t like that contrast in temperature. Things get mixed together and you have a storm like this,’ said Gino Izzo, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
‘The jet stream up in the atmosphere was like the engine and the warm air was the fuel.’
Snowfall totals this winter are off the charts along parts of the Interstate 95 corridor between Boston and Philadelphia.
Newark, New Jersey, was hit with 62 inches of snow through January 27, compared with the seasonal average of 25 inches.
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