NEW YORK - Hundreds of passengers cold, hunger and exhaustion are left in the three major airports in New York area because of a fierce winter storm.
Authorities say the would-be passengers are still blankets and cots. However, some travelers say they were not allowed to retrive your checked baggage and no extra clothes or toiletries.
Jason Cochran of Manhattan, said tempers flare as people began to feel hungry. He was caught at Kennedy Airport since he arrived Sunday 18:00 your flight to London.
Some subway passengers were stranded for hours on trains above ground was broken in Queens. Passenger Christopher Mullen says local news station New York 1 cable that passengers have "no food, no water" and no heat.
In Monmouth County, New Jersey, state police took water and food for diabetics left on two passenger buses about 50 people in the Garden State Parkway. A bus is still awaiting rescue in mid-morning on Monday.
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NEW YORK (AP) - A powerful East Coast snowstorm threatened to potential passengers by air, rail and road Monday, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the vacation and closure of major airports and Railway lines for a second day.
Officials urged anyone who does not have to drive to stay off roads in the region, where strong winds pushed the snow into deep drifts across roads, railways and runways. Over two feet of snow had fallen in some areas in the morning.
In Monmouth County, New Jersey, state police brought water and food for diabetics left on two passenger buses about 50 people in the Garden State Parkway, where vehicles stranded saturate ramps snow plows and ambulances blocked, State police spokesman Steve Jones told NBC's "Today" show. A bus was released at 7 amy the other is expected to be soon, he said.
"Most people are pretty quiet, but they are nervous," State Police Trooper Chris Menello, who along with his fellow soldiers raided his personal stash of food to carry passengers.
Menello said the jam started around 17:00 Sunday night with a woman who went into labor.
"She and her husband had three small children in the car all under 5 years," he said.
An ambulance was able to get her and take her to a nearby hospital, but by then the green route became a parking lot, with the accumulation of snow prevents people from outside the excavation.
In New York, hundreds of passengers were stranded at John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Steve Coleman, a spokesman said they were still blankets and cots.
Hundreds of passengers were asleep on Monday at Long Island Rail Road cars frozen in the platform. Others are spread as refugees in the entrance of the rail link to Kennedy Airport and was impotent at the box office, waiting in vain for good news to flash on screen programming. Hours passed without leaving a single train with passengers.
The buses were eliminated, so taxis were little more than a myth and those who tried to walk out of the station was attacked with a strong wind made the cold snowflakes sting like needles.
"We tried, but can not do much with the snow. It's just not stopping," said Sharray Jones, 20, headed home to Long Island after visiting friends.
A blizzard warning, issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds and gusts over 35 mph for three hours, went into effect early Monday from Delaware to the northern tip of Maine. The storm is expected to put its heaviest snowfall in the hours before dawn on Monday, sometimes dumping 2 to 4 inches per hour. A total of 12 to 16 inches are expected in almost all of Rhode Island, Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, but forecasters said winds of 50 mph could create much deeper snowdrifts.
Nearly 30 inches of snow fell in Bergen County, New Jersey, Monday morning, and 20 inches was recorded in Central New York Park early Monday.
States of emergency were declared in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Maine and Massachusetts, where Gov. Deval Patrick urged people who do not have to be on the roads to stay home to ensure their safety and work teams. the essential state workers were told to stay home on Monday.
Manchester Boston Regional Airport outside Manchester, New Hampshire, was almost deserted in the morning.
Sitting alone at a table in the food court was Alicia Kinney, a mission worker aged 25, of Columbus, Ohio. Your flight to Newark, New Jersey, was canceled and could not get a confirmed seat until Wednesday. Kinney spent the night on benches in the baggage claim area before moving to the food court of a drink in the morning.
"I arrived at 4 pm (Sunday) and has a seat waiting to Cleveland, but at the last minute, the flight was canceled. By then, it was too badly out of my friends to come back for me," Kinney said. "It's a funny situation. I'm trying to stay positive."
In Philadelphia, the driver's cab Senoussaoui Farid, 33, navigate the slippery conditions described as "like a video game." Senoussaoui had worked all night during the storm and said the passengers were universally grateful when he stopped to pick them up.
In New England, many passengers seemed to be paying attention to the call to stay off the roads. In the Boston metropolitan area, the roads in the city were abandoned near dawn on Monday as many workers were given the day off and others were on vacation for the holiday week.
Conditions such as snow storm wreaked havoc on travelers from the Carolinas to Maine.
Airlines scrambled to rebook passengers on canceled thousands of flights - more than 1,400 of the three major airports in the New York area alone - but said he did not expect normal service to resume until Tuesday. Amtrak canceled train service from New York to Boston after doing the same thing before several trains in Virginia.
The Long Island Rail Road, the nation's largest commuter rail system, also suspended the service. The bus companies canceled routes throughout the East Coast, and drivers faced hazardous travel conditions - sometimes with near zero visibility.
A spokesman said Boston Logan International Airport could take days to get back to normal.
Wind gusts up to 80 mph knocked out power to thousands. Utilities reported about 30,000 customers were in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, particularly Cape Cod and south of Boston.
In Wells, Maine, police said a man aged 59 died several hours after his truck crashed into a tree in whiteout conditions Sunday night.
In Connecticut, Allie Campbell discovered that her mother had taken a fuse of criticism of his car on Sunday night to ensure the safety of her daughter.
"She messaged me and said, 'You do not pay for insurance, not driving," Campbell said Monday, laughing, as he reported to work at Katz Ace Hardware in Glastonbury - after his mother gave fuse.
Peter Iarossi, a train conductor MBCR, which operates the commuter trains of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, saw his normal flight path 15 minutes to an hour due to blizzard conditions.
He woke early and sat in his car idling in the rail terminal an hour before the 6:45 am train was leaving to start his journey to Boston.
"You're here to bring people to Boston," said Iarossi. "You do not have a choice of people counting on you -.. Especially in bad weather "
The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system off the coast of North Carolina and strengthened as it moved northeast, the National Weather Service said. Thus, parts of the South had its first white Christmas since records were kept.
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