North American Blizzard of 2005

Facts about the Storm

Storm Stories

Aftermath

Some people could not travel on the roads just like a woman named Cassie Szczotka. She was travels from Georgia to New Jersey to see her husband who was going to be deployed to Iraq for over a year. Szczotka explains how she was with her two children when she was stuck on a train station for a few hours until a local resident offered her a ride to a near by motel.

2.The streets were cleans by January 24th

1. Narrow roads:

• cars were on the side and plowed on

3. Schools were closed for a long period of time

(roads closed; not about to get to school)

• Many people reported that the storm took over three hours to clean up and get snow rid of their paths and sidewalks.
• The storm gusts of howling winds up to 80 mph
• The conditions of the storm were so high that the storm was recorded in the world records book.

Shawn Simmons, 28, of Nashua, N.J., was stuck at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., on his return from a vacation in South America.

Areas hit by the storm the most:

Path of the Storm

Over the Atlantic Ocean

• Large areas of the northern United States
• Southeastern Massachusetts had more than 3 feet of snow
• Philadelphia and New York City had about 12-15 inch of snow fall.
• Rated a Category 4 on the (NSIS) Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale.
• Before it traveled to any of these regions the storm became in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and northern Ohio.

Local Areas Affected

Other parts of the world were effected by this storm such as

• Ireland
• Great Britain
• Scandinavian peninsula

(Caused blackouts and deaths)

• Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts
• T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island
• Public schools (from 2-7 days)
• Community Colleges in Massachusetts

• Started in the Midwest on Thursday
• Moved to the Mid-Atlantic on Friday and Saturday
• On Saturday afternoon the storm reached the New England area
• The higher the storm moved to the north the snow became:

1. Fluffy, light

2. Arctic Area temperatures

3. More snow fall

Also, deaths did not only occur in European regions but also three in Ohio, three in Wisconsin, two in Pennsylvania, and one in Maryland and Iowa.

• the Airports in Pennsylvania reopened after being shut down on Saturday January 22,2005.
• The thousands of travelers that stayed at the airports overnight were expected to departure on that day.
• At Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, about 600 flights were still canceled
• On the same Saturday the storm approached about two airplanes slid off taxiways in Pittsburgh and one at JFK Airport.

• Many other states such as Detroit, Florida, Washington D.C. and Illinois were affected with snowfall but no as greatly as in the New England area.
• A big event that was occurring during this big storm was a football game in Philadelphia that required more than 750 workers to help shovel all the snow before the game.
• In New York City residents experienced many whiteouts and towing to their cars.

North American Blizzard of 2005

Started on January 20,2005