Cleanup begins after huge East Coast snowstorm

What a difference a day makes.

Jonas is forecast to easily surpass the 2010 storm dubbed “snowmageddon”.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said that dropping temperatures still pose a risk.

Announcements of Monday closures of schools and colleges in Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey were already being posted early Sunday but the storm appeared to have damaged New Jersey shore towns more than any other area.

“There was much more water….”

Millions of people in the eastern United States started digging out yesterday from a huge blizzard that brought NY and Washington to a standstill, but the travel woes were far from over.

A pedestrian skis on a snow covered Pennsylvania Ave.in Washington DC.

West Virginia saw the highest snowfall total, with 42 of inches falling over the course of two days the Weather Channel reported.

The second-biggest snowstorm in New York’s history left the Central Part with 26.8 inches of snow, prompting a travel ban, which was lifted later.

But snow wasn’t the only product of the storm. Between Virginia and NY, the AP noted, wind speeds reached about 50 miles per hour. Roads were reopened throughout the city, on Long Island and in New Jersey.

New Jersey Transit shut all bus, rail and light rail service at 2 a.m. local time on Saturday. “But we’ve come through it pretty well”, he said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous”.

Roofs collapsed on a historic theatre in Virginia and a horse barn in Maryland, while seaside towns in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland grappled with flooding. Severe flooding up and down the coast has, in some areas, topped the water levels caused by Hurricane Sandy.

“This is going to be one of those generational events, where your parents talk about how bad it was”, Ryan Maue, a meteorologist for WeatherBell Analytics, said from Tallahassee, Florida, which also got some flakes.

“They are basically the first line of defense”, he said. The city’s bus service will also operate on a limited basis.

“Our tireless sanitation workers are out in full force and we must give them space to clear the roads”. “Some areas I would say it’s thigh- to waist-deep”.

Cancellations have mostly been occurring at airports in Chicago, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, Boston, Washington and NY.

Most of the city was without electricity, he said, and the phones at the emergency dispatch center were jammed all day.

It’s beginning to look a lot like a snow apocalypse: Snowboarders have taken over the streets of New York City, the nation’s capital is up to its waist in snowfall and people are dying just from shoveling the massive dumping of snow still striking the East Coast. Numerous deaths from traffic accidents have been reported as the storm moves up the coast. In New York city, the manager of the midtown Metro Cafe, which remained open, told Reuters news agency: “Last four hours, we don’t have any business”.

Hundreds of motorists faced the storm’s wrath stuck on highways. It will stay into effect until Sunday morning.

Air travel continued to be disrupted, with the total number of canceled flights over Friday, Saturday and Sunday totaling 10,877.

In New York, three people died while shovelling snow in Queens and Staten Island. Theatres cancelled Saturday matinee and evening performances at the urging of the mayor.

“The show must go on”, League president Charlotte St. Martin said in a statement.