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More than 4,200 flights in the United States were canceled or
delayed on Monday, according to FlightAware. Nearly 90,000 homes
and businesses between Georgia and Maine lacked electricity,
according to PowerOutage.US.
Traffic was snarled in Toronto, Canada's largest city, as the
snowstorm brought visibility to near zero, shut subway lines and
left motorists stranded on local highways for hours.
Buses were at a standstill and passing pedestrians helped push
cars up a street at a main commuter route in central Toronto.
The region was predicted to get up to 2 feet of snow, and an
extreme weather warning was in effect. Authorities asked
residents to stay off the roads.
In neighboring Quebec, the weather caused traffic accidents,
including pileups involving dozens of vehicles that forced
authorities to close some highways, according to the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp (CBC).
In the eastern United States, officials likewise urged residents
to stay off snowy roads on the holiday honoring slain civil
rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie, recorded 27 inches of snow,
according to the National Weather Service, while parts of New
York state, Pennsylvania and North Carolina received more than
20 inches.
Atlanta saw its first snow in four years, according to the NWS,
and some regions in North Carolina had record snowfalls.
As the storm swept north, northern Maine and New Hampshire were
still due for another 2 to 4 inches of ice and snow Monday
evening, the weather service said. Blustery conditions were
predicted across much of the region into Tuesday.
(Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru, Andy Sullivan in Washington, Daniel
Trotta in California and Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Scott
Malone, Leslie Adler, Heather Timmons and Paul Simao)
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