The U.S Canceled around 1400 flights due to the winter storm in Northeast

The U.S Canceled around 1,400 flights due to the winter storm in Northeast. 

NEW YORK: More than 1400 U.S. flights were canceled on Sunday following the fact that the nation’s northeastern states were hit one day earlier by a devastating winter storm that forced some states to declare an emergency.

According to the flight-tracking site FlightAware.com, the number of flights cancellations inside, into, and out of the United States was about 1,450as as of the afternoon of Sunday, according to the flight-tracking report. 

Additionally, one-hundred and seventy-four U.S.-related planes were delayed data indicated.

LaGuardia Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Boston Logan International Airport were most severely affected by cancellations and delays.

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The intense winter storm of Saturday dumped over 2 feet (60 centimeters) of snow in some regions while delivering high winds. 

It caused thousands of cancellations of flights and prompted governors in Rhode Island and other states to restrict access to roads.

The New York’s Long Island town of Islip was among the most severely affected across the state, according to governor Kathy Hochul told WCBS-TV on Sunday. 

“We’re going to give them the golden snowball award for this week, this storm. They were at 24.7 inches,” Hochul stated.

“The storm moved out of our region last night, but we expect to be clearing more roads … and working with our utilities throughout the day today and tomorrow,” Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito told an early morning briefing on Sunday.

In neighboring Canada in Canada, the most severe cold weather had passed across Atlantic Canada. 

But many communities still faced blasting snow, rain, strong winds, thunderstorm surges on the weekend.

Conditions on Massachusetts island Nantucket was improved over the weekend following the strong nor’easter that flooded roads and led to a major power outage on Saturday, the police department of the island stated. 

The waters were deep enough to allow two students from a high school to paddle a canoe down the flooded road in a picture shared via social networks.

In Massachusetts, around 31,000 of 2.6 million customers were without power at the time of Sunday’s early hours, as per the PowerOutage.us website. 

The utility firm Eversource Energy stated that most of its customers still without power will get it restored when the clock strikes midnight on Monday.

The weather could be the cause of 3 deaths within New York alone, all located on Long Island. 

One of them was a woman aged 78 who was discovered on Saturday in the parking lot of a hotel within Uniondale, New York, with her car’s window opened, according to authorities from the Nassau County Police Department. 

The police also announced the death of two males between the ages of 53 and 75 who fell over while shoveling snow at different places in Syosset, a Long Island town of Syosset, on the weekend.