{"id":4874,"date":"2015-01-26T07:37:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:38:21","slug":"4874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/u-s-blizzard-new-york-braces-for-heavy-snow-as-storms-slam-east-coast-1.2931164\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>&#8216;This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before,&#8217; says NYC mayor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of the U.S. Northeast are girding for a &#8220;crippling and potentially historic&#8221; storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in about 60 centimetres of snow.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said the nor&#8217;easter would bring heavy snow, powerful winds and widespread coastal flooding starting Monday and through Tuesday. A blizzard warning was issued for a 400-kilometre\u00a0stretch of the Northeast, including New York and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials began to activate emergency centres\u00a0on Sunday as professional sports teams, schools and utilities hastily revised their schedules and made preparations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/winter-storm-likely-to-result-in-travel-cancellations-1.2931400\">Weather warnings blanket Maritimes ahead of Tuesday storm\u200b<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/wicked-winds-rock-newfoundland-blizzard-hits-labrador-1.2930948\">Wicked winds rock Newfoundland, blizzard hits Labrador\u200b<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-under-extreme-cold-weather-alert-again-1.2931152\">Toronto under extreme cold weather alert again<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before,&#8221; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference in a Manhattan sanitation garage where workers were preparing plows and salt for the massive cleanup on about 9,600 kilometres of city roadways.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker warned residents to prepare for roads that are &#8220;very hard, if not impossible, to navigate,&#8221; power outages and possibly even a lack of public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast &#8216;This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before,&#8217; says NYC mayor Residents of the U.S. Northeast are girding for a &#8220;crippling and potentially historic&#8221; storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2925,2922,2926,2924,288,568,2923,834,885],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-blizzard","tag-charlie-baker","tag-emergency","tag-extreme-weather","tag-new-york-city","tag-storm","tag-us","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}