NEW YORK (AP) – A sprawling, lumbering winter storm walloped the Eastern U.S. on Monday, shutting down coronavirus vaccination sites, closing schools and halting transit as snow piled up from the Appalachians to New England, with the heaviest accumulations yet to come in many places.
With flakes falling since Sunday evening, New York City and northern New Jersey were bracing for as much as 22 inches (56 cm) of snow, and parts of New England for a foot or more. The National Weather Service warned that high winds and snowfall could persist into Tuesday in New York and Wednesday in New England.
“We’re looking at a long two days here,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said at a virtual news, noting that road conditions were already “seriously dangerous” at midday.
In Brooklyn, cars were sliding and getting stuck on a slight hill.
The hazards already had caused more than 360 car crashes in Virginia over the weekend, including one that sent four central Virginia firefighters to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries after their fire truck overturned Sunday on snow-covered roads in Henrico County, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.