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Maryland was under a state of emergency as of mid-day on February 6, as state and county road crews said they were struggling to keep even one lane open on major roads and 151,000 customers were without power in Maryland, including 34,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers in the region.
Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with "Armageddon", "Apocalypse", and "Godzilla" respectively. Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse were used in the popular press in Canada during January 2009, [ 1 ] and was also used in January 2010 by The Guardian reporter Charlie Brooker to characterise the ...
The February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard was a winter and severe weather event that afflicted the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 9–11, 2010, affecting some of the same regions that had experienced a historic Nor'easter just three days earlier.
Northeast snowstorms haven't been all that prolific lately, but that certainly wasn't the case in 2010. On Feb. 5, 2010, 15 years ago, the first of back-to-back snowstorms buried the mid-Atlantic ...
This resulted in a cutoff low (not influenced by the predominant jet stream currents), which took a highly unusual track, retrograding west into New York state before looping back out to sea. [14] Total snowfall accumulations were as high as 36 inches (91 cm) in areas further inland, while New York City picked up 20.9 inches of snow.
Snowmageddon 2017 saw 27.7 inches of snow across 28 days, starting Dec. 14, 2016, and lasting until Jan. 10, 2017. That’s opposed to the 22.1 inches that fell in just 15 days this year.
Former Representative Beto O'Rourke ran a virtual phone bank to contact over 780,000 seniors across the state. [100] Colorado City, Texas, Mayor Tim Boyd faced extreme backlash after he made comments criticizing citizens for not preparing for the winter storm and stating: "the strong will survive and the weak will perish." He resigned following ...
List of highest snowfall accumulations by state during the 2009 blizzard (Snowpocalypse) State Location Amount Connecticut Clinton, East Haddam, Norwich, Putnam: 20.0 in (51 cm) Washington, D.C. American University, The Mall: 16.0 in (41 cm) Delaware Dover: 18.0 in (46 cm) Kentucky Harlan: 7.0 in (18 cm) Maine Hampstead: 5.4 in (14 cm) Maryland