CEJ #3

lAlyssa

US 2/6/12

Huff Reporters Post

Northeast Blizzard Warnings

East Coast U.S.

                           http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/northeast-blizzard-warnings_n_2644643.html#liveblog
You may have heard about the big blizzard on the East Coast. But it may be actually bigger than you think.  The super big blizzard named Nemo is raging through New York all the way to Boston and even past that. Before the snow started even falling, the weather reports were so crazy that school was cancelled and a lot of areas and more than 3,700 flights were cancelled. "This one doesn't come along every day. This is going to be a dangerous winter storm," says Alan Dunham a meteorologist from Massachusetts. Wind gusts have already reached up to 75 mph and hopefully won’t take the power out of too many homes.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has put 250,00 tons of salt and tons of plows on stand by. "We've had instances where they have predicted something big and it's petered out and I don't think this is going to be one of those times." said Dennis Smith a DPW worker in Massachusetts.  Amtrak has cancelled their service until the storm is over. The East Coast
has once again been partially devastated by yet another natural occurrence.

I think that this is absolutely crazy. The East Coast is still trying to put the pieces back together after the horrific Superstorm Sandy and this is the last thing they need. I have so much family back east and before I read this article, I hadn’t even heard about it. I am seriously freaked out about how my family is getting along. They live in Boston, New York, and New Jersey and those are some of the most affected areas. I will make sure that I call or Skype my family to make sure everything is going okay. I feel really bad for the people back there to have to deal with all of this and I hope they are all okay. No bias of this story, just the plain ,harsh reality of Nemo, the blizzard.