BOSTON (AP) – Coronavirus vaccination sites across the northeast erupted again Tuesday after a two-day snowstorm that also shut down public transportation, closed schools and stranded travelers with canceled flights.
Some officials said that since initial vaccine supply was thin, they did not expect to have major problems catching the spread after a day or two of the canceled appointments.
In New Jersey, travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday described being forced to endure widespread disruptions. Keno Walter-White said he was stranded at the airport after his flight was canceled and bus and tram services suspended.
“I’ve been snowing at the airport for three days,” said Walter-White, of Las Vegas. “No kind of accommodation.”
Tires of snow continued through parts of the region Tuesday afternoon, but the worst was over, with more than 30 centimeters (76 centimeters) in parts of New Jersey and only a few centimeters in Boston.
Lara Pagano, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland, noted that although there were measurable snowfalls in several areas in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for several consecutive days, it did not break such records. .
She said, for example, that the four days are the consecutive days with measured snowfall for Washington, while point five is for New York City and six for Philadelphia.
“Although this storm was a protracted event, in that sense it is not a record-breaker, but it is obviously very high within it,” she said.
The expansive stormy storm the eastern United States had already sunk by Monday. More than 17 centimeters (43 centimeters) of snow fell on Central Park in Manhattan, and as much as 76 centimeters (76 centimeters) was reported in northern New Jersey.
While school children in New York City still had a day of distance education due to the snow, the above-ground subway and train service returned early Tuesday, and a ban on certain large trucks on state roads was lifted. Some vaccination sites in the city remained closed, but others, including those run by the public hospital system, were open Tuesday.
Floods flooded coastal areas of Massachusetts early Tuesday, where the storm had already disrupted the second phase of the state’s vaccination, as a Boston site that would open Monday to residents 75 and older was not; some other mass vaccination sites remained open.
Several areas in Massachusetts were hit with 18 inches of snow, including the central Massachusetts communities of Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Ashburnham.
Much of southern New Hampshire received about a foot of snow. Parts of northern New Hampshire, where the state’s ski areas and most snowmobile trails are, have become between 22 and 25 centimeters.
“The next few weeks are going to be phenomenal,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in an interview with WZID-FM on Tuesday.
The storm raged abroad and made it inhospitable to seafarers. On the Maine coast, waves came closer to 9 feet and a gust of 117 km / h was recorded on an outer buoy.
In Connecticut, the storm – which dumped up to 48 inches of snow in some areas – forced the cancellation of 10,000 vaccination appointments Monday, state officials said. Attempts are being made to offer vaccinations to people whose appointments have been canceled by the end of the week.
A state of emergency imposed by the New Jersey government, Phil Jersey, went into effect Tuesday, and the state’s six megasites for COVID-19 vaccines are still closed because plow operators are blowing snow and snow.
New Jersey police reported that soldiers responded to 661 accidents from 7 p.m., and since 1 a.m. Sunday, 1850 motorists have come to the rescue.
There was also concern about coastal flooding in New Jersey. In a Facebook video posted by Union Beach Police, Keyport Police Chief Shannon Torres and Capt. Michael Ferm showed what saves a man who showed signs of hypothermia in his car from floodwaters.
In Virginia, four firefighters were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening after their fire truck overturned on snow-covered roads in Henrico County Sunday, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Power outages appear to be minimal. About 5,000 customers in Massachusetts and about 3,000 in New York were without power Tuesday morning.
Governor of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, has declared a catastrophic emergency after snow falls to 76 centimeters in the central and eastern areas. The proclamation released millions of dollars for snow removal and authorized officials to seek help from the National Guard.
According to authorities, a 67-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease who had strayed from her home was found dead of hypothermia in a street in Allentown on Monday morning.
About 97 miles north of Plains Township, a shooting after a snow removal dispute killed a couple, and the suspect was later found dead in his nearby home from a wound that was allegedly self-inflicted, Lucerne officials said. . County said.