Storms snow in the Country
Recently a snow-storm hit the Midwest and Northeast, after thinking the worst of it had passed last month. More flights had to be canceled again; nearly 300 flights had been canceled at O’Hare airport. Then at Midway Airport another 70 flights had been canceled. It was predicted that 6 inches would fall in the metropolitan area of Chicago. Furthermore freezing rain and sleet would hit as far south as D.C. and Baltimore. There’s no telling if this storm will add up to becoming worse than the one late last year. 6 inches may not seem like a lot to our small little town but to a city such as Chicago, it can create devastating consequences. Fox news is saying that it has produced power outages throughout the Northeast that could continue for days to come and fears of increasing floodwaters play a big risk to the state of the Northeast. The snow makes the roads very icy and slick making conditions for the normal days commute nearly reckless. This storm came from the Northern Pacific and Canada, where when it hit in Washington and Oregon it did pretty much the same amount of impact as it has now, although it’s mostly already melted in those states. The storm system has actually done more damage with the amount of freezing rain that has fallen rather than the snow, but as long as it stays that far north the rest of the United States should stay relatively safe from that.
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