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Storm Brings Snow, Ice To Northeast

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By VALERIE BAUMAN, The Associated Press

Published: December 3, 2007

ALBANY, N.Y. - A storm system slid across the Northeast with snow, sleet and freezing rain Sunday, glazing roads and tying up air travel after blacking out thousands of customers in the Midwest.

At least 10 traffic deaths have been blamed on weather-related traffic accidents.
Winter storm warnings were in effect into today in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine and into Tuesday in parts of New York state. On the other side of the weather system, warnings were issued for parts of Michigan, where freezing rain and sleet was predicted to turn to all snow late Sunday.

The National Weather Service said a foot of snow was possible in the mountains of northern New England, with the potential for 20 inches in northern Maine. In higher elevations of upstate New York, 13 inches of snow was possible. Lake-effect snow and high winds were forecast for parts of Michigan and western New York.

"It's kind of a mess - probably the best way to term it in one word," meteorologist Bob Kilpatrick said in Albany.

Three to 6 inches of snow had fallen by Sunday afternoon in central New York state. Parts of New Jersey had less than 3 inches.

Hundreds of flights into the New York City area's three main airports - Kennedy, Newark Liberty and LaGuardia - were delayed for up to two hours Sunday.

Airlines at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport moved travelers stranded when hundreds of flights were canceled by the storm Saturday. Flights also were canceled Saturday at airports in Des Moines, Iowa, and Milwaukee as blowing snow reduced visibility.

The storm left snow and ice from the Plains across the Upper Midwest on Saturday.

Grand Marais, Minn., on Lake Superior's North Shore, got 20 inches of snow while the port city of Duluth had a record 10.3 inches, the National Weather Service said.

Utility companies in Illinois said lights were back on for most of nearly 140,000 customers who lost electricity Saturday as ice weighed down power lines. Ice also blacked out more than 14,000 customers in Iowa, utilities reported.

A Purdue University hockey team member was killed Saturday when a team van overturned on an Indiana highway, school officials said.

Elsewhere, the weather was blamed for three deaths in Wisconsin, three in Michigan, and one each in North Dakota, Illinois and Colorado.

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