Temps magnifique a New York, la neige fond enfin. Snow Sculptors Square Off on the High Line. By Tara Kyle DNAinfo Reporter/Producer CHELSEA — What do centipedes, octopuses, dragons and rats have in common? At least until the temperatures rise, snow models of each of these creatures are standing on the High Line. While the rest of the city grumbled through plowed-in cars and jumbo-sized puddles, Friends of the High Line brought some joy to the snow day by offering a first-ever "Snow Sculpt-Off. " Fourteen teams raced to complete the best-designed project over a two-hour period Thursday afternoon. One of the three sculptures that took a joint-third place prize (ice skating passes at the Standard Hotel's new rink), was an octopus crafted Chelsea resident Deborah Fenker, who works as a model.
"I originally had something more morbid in mind," Fenker said, declining to describe the original idea. A "Snow Rex" created by a group of NYU students and a miniature Empire State Building also took third place honors. "I'm feeling cold and ready for a hot drink and some bread," he said. Yet Another Storm Buries the Northeast. Kids, Parents Celebrate Snow Day In Central Park. Skiing Down Park Ave At High Speed Behind an SUV - Gothamist. Slush Olympics: Snow Makes It Tough For Pedestrians, Too « CBS New York – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY. From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Snow mounds left by plows have created a sort of slalom course for cars on the roads, and on the sidewalks, pedestrians don’t have it much easier.
CBS 2’s Whit Johnson hit the pavement Wednesday to get some tips from New Yorkers on how to navigate the sidewalk slush. In a city where even a few steps can send you to the pavement, everybody’s got their own technique for navigating the snow and ice. “Try not to fall,” Elizabeth McAlister said. “Sometimes I just wait and see what everybody else is going to do, and just go in their footsteps,” Jason Moore said.
“Try not to get my Uggs wet,” Penny Peace said. Three days after the storm clobbered Manhattan, pedestrians were still forced to pick their poison. Some go with the narrow channel in unusually heavy foot traffic, and run into the invisible puddle. “You go and you think it’s just going to be an inch, and it goes all the way up, and it’s brutal,” Moore said. Snow Blankets U.S. East Coast, Stranding Holiday Travelers. New York City’s major airports resumed operations after the heaviest December snowfall in six decades left travelers in the Northeast struggling amid waist- high drifts and blizzard winds.
The city’s Central Park had 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow by 8 a.m., the most for the month since 1948, the National Weather Service said. Skies cleared over New York by daybreak as the agency issued blizzard warnings for Boston and into Maine. The storm forced airlines to cancel more than 6,000 flights since yesterday, when airports began to close. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said LaGuardia, John F. “There may have been storms that equaled this, but it doesn’t get much worse than this,” Tom Kines, a meteorologist at State College, Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather Inc., said by telephone. Getting Around The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market kept normal hours today.
Economic Impact The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. Snowfall totals: why blizzard 2010 didn't bring Northeast to its knees. The Northeast's great blizzard of 2010 arrived with timing that couldn't have been better or couldn't have been worse – take your pick. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition It was a certifiable "snow day," but not in the sense of a serendipitous day off. Schoolkids were on vacation already, and in many cases their parents already had time off from work. As the snowfall totals piled up, the storm also dampened post-holiday retail sales in the Northeast region and forced many people to adjust travel plans as they returned from visits with family.
But if all that was a disappointment to some residents on the Eastern Seaboard, the timing could be viewed as positive for some of the same reasons: relatively minimal disruption of school and work schedules. Whatever the views on its timing, the storm's impacts were sizable: • Wind gusts of up to 80 miles per hour knocked out power in some places. Your Photos: Post-Christmas Blizzard. Blizzageddon Descends On NYC, Wreaking Snowy Havoc - Gothamist. The blizzard of 2010 has been so powerful it's got thundersnow and sent flurries into the subway system.
Now the real question: WTF happens tomorrow when many of us head to work. Mayor Bloomberg said, "If you have to go out today, please leave the cars at home—take mass transit and be careful. " He also said that if you have to drive, please wait a few hours so streets can be plowed, "I know it’s inconvenient, sometimes it can be expensive.
But nothing is worth losing your life over this. " Bloomberg said at a press conference at a Department of Sanitation facility where plows and other snow removing equipment are stored, "The latest weather reports are qualifying this storm as a blizzard, and unfortunately our city is directly in the path. The meteorologists at the National Weather Service are telling us that we may see up to 16 inches of snow, as well as gale force winds that could reach up to 55 mph. " Christmas Blizzard: The great snowstorm of 2010 blankets New York ...and beyond. Photo : yfrog.com/gzo0rldj - Shared by DMUVC. Share photos on Twitter. City Digs Out As Storm Closes Schools. The eighth-largest winter storm in New York City history left parts of the city under 19 inches of snow Thursday, forcing public schools to close for the day as city workers pushed to clear the streets.
The city has since lifted its winter weather emergency. "Clearing the streets remains our number one job, and to do that, motorists should please, please refrain from driving," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during a City Hall press conference Thursday morning. The downfall brought a rare snow day for New York City's public school students, with many of them heading outdoors to play. It was only the seventh snow day for city schools since 1978. After the heavy winter storm made many roads impassable, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black announced the closures shortly before 5 a.m. Tens of thousands of city students were supposed to have taken their State Regents exams Thursday, but most of them will now have to take the exams in June.
A list of other school closings can be found below. .