It now seems that nearly 7,000 flights have been canceled since Sunday because of the post-Christmas blizzard that swept the United States.This blizzard actually blanketed much of the East Coast in tons of snow.
Overall, this is the worst time that a blizzard could have hit the East Coat. This blizzard came during the busiest travel season in the United States. Thousands of people were trying to travel home after spending holidays with their families, only to be met with cancellations, and it does not look like things are going to get any better any time soon.
Although airports are back open, many passengers still have a very long wait ahead of them. Tens of thousands of people had to rebook flights on planes whose seats were already scarce due to the holiday season.
Meanwhile, the second day after a winter storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on New York City, travel remains problematic. Subway service is spotty to non-existent, buses in the boroughs sit idle, and snowdrifts have made side streets impassable.
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Many city residents are complaining that the cleanup effort is not coming fast enough to the streets they live on, a number of which have yet to see a first plow, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg—despite frigid temperatures—is feeling the heat.
What hit the city was a perfect storm.The blizzard dumped snow too fast, people foolishly took their cars out on Sunday and, as former Transportation Commissioner Lucius Riccio points out in the adjacent column, hurricane-force winds blew plowed snow right back onto the roadways - where it grabbed vehicles like quicksand.
Ambulances, fire trucks, police cruisers, buses and many private cars were stuck. Plows could not move until the buses and cars were towed. However, there were not enough city tow trucks, and private tow companies did not show up to help, so nothing moved and the winds blew and the snow got higher and more cars and buses got stranded.
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