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. The school hoped to have it inspected and reopened in time for a game Saturday. The University of Connecticut closed its hockey rink as a precaution because of the amount of ice and snow on the roof. Roof cave-ins also were reported in Rhode Island. "Thank God they left the building when they did."Ī gas station canopy on New York's Long Island collapsed, as did an airplane hangar near Boston, damaging aircraft. "It's like a bomb scene," Santostefano said. ![]() Acting Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said two workers fled when they heard a cracking sound. In Middletown, Conn., the entire third floor of a building failed, littering the street with bricks and snapping two trees. 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. Officials in the Northeast had warned homeowners and businesses for days of the dangers of leaving snow piled up on rooftops. Much of Texas was under a hard freeze warning Wednesday light snowfall stubbornly lingered into the night in Maine. The sprawling system unloaded as much as 2 feet of snow, crippled airports and stranded drivers in downtown Chicago as if in a prairie blizzard. Wind chills were expected to dip to 30 below in parts of the nation's midsection before the region awoke Thursday to deal with the storm's aftermath. (AP)Īn enormous winter storm left Midwesterners shivering in its frozen footprint and crushed snow-laden buildings in the Northeast, where a combination of ice, snow and rain pushed much of the winter-cursed region to its breaking point. A massive snowstorm enveloping much of the nation has brought building roofs to the breaking point in a winter that has already delivered more snow than many cities typically see in a whole season. Orozco emphasized that the city was monitoring Lake Shore Drive from the beginning and responded as swiftly as possible.Andrew Santino, of Santino's Roofing and Asphault, uses a rake to clear snow from a residential roof in Andover on Wednesday. "We know that hundreds do people were very inconvenienced, and we're sorry about that," Orozco said. The plan is to reopen Lake Shore Drive when they believe it's safe to do so, but it's not known when that will be. Orozco said all the people who wanted to leave their cars were off the Drive by around 7 a.m. Most were cold, and merely needed dry socks, blankets, slippers and towels.Ībout 137 hospital employees are lodging at the medical facility. Joseph Hospital reported that 185 people had been brought in from Lake Shore Drive. Others were taken to warming centers or placed on warming buses. ![]() Windshield wipers were left up for cars that were empty.Īs for those who were rescued, many were taken to St. The Fire Department set up a mobile command center along North Lake Shore Drive, and came to each vehicle to check on people with water and granola bars. On the one hand, they wanted to get people off the roadway, but on the other hand, they wanted them to remain in their cars so plows could attack the snow buildup. The city ended up being sharply criticized for its response to the emergency on the Drive. Nobody's told us anything."Ī CTA bus driver told CBS 2's Vince Gerasole he had been stranded on Lake Shore Drive since 5:40 p.m. There's a car that ran out of gas, and that was about 1 o'clock and we've been sitting here ever since," he said. They told us about an hour and a half ago that we'd be off the exit. "The next thing you know, it's 4:15 in the morning, and I was one of the last cars to come off who actually had a few fumes left in his tank to get to the gas station," Glonke said.Īnother driver remained stranded on Lake Shore Drive at 5 a.m., and said he had been all but abandoned. Many cars ran out of gas, and were abandoned, as Glonke sat and exchanged text messages with his girlfriend, sister and mother.
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