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8A – Daily News – Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Thousands stranded by 2-foot blizzard in Northeast NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of travelers try- ing to get home after the holiday weekend sat bored and bleary-eyed in airports and shivered aboard stuck buses and subway trains Monday, stranded by a bliz- zard that slammed the Northeast with more than 2 feet of show. ‘‘People are exhausted. They want to get home,’’ sighed Eric Schorr, marooned at New York’s Kennedy Airport since Sun- day afternoon by the storm, which worked its way up the coast from the Carolinas to Maine with winds up to 80 mph that whirled the snow into deep drifts across streets, railroad tracks and runways. Snowfall totals included a foot in Tidewater, Va., and Philadelphia, 29 inches in parts of northern New Jer- sey, 2 feet north of New York City, and more than 18 inches in Boston. The storm closed all three of the New York met- ropolitan area’s airports and stymied most other means of transportation. Buses sputtered to a halt in snow drifts. Trains stopped in their tracks. Taxi drivers abandoned their cabs in the middle of New York’s snow-clogged streets. Even the New York City subway system — usually depend- able during a snowstorm — broke down in spots, trap- ping riders for hours. Cold, hungry and tired passengers spent the night in airports, train stations and bus depots. Some were given cots and blankets. Others used their luggage as pillows, curled into chairs, or made beds by spreading towels on the floor or over- turning the plastic bins used for sending items through airport security. Some airline passengers could be stuck for days. Many planes are booked solid because of the busy holiday season, and airlines are operating fewer flights because of the economic downturn. As bad as the storm was, it could have been worse if it had been an ordinary work day. Children are home from school all week on Christmas vacation, and lots of people had taken off from work. Many youngsters went out and frolicked in the snow, some of them using the sleds they got for Christ- mas. Many side streets in New York City remained unplowed well into the day, and pedestrians stumbled Dr. Andrew PomazalD.O. Physician & Surgeon General Medicine Saturday Appointments Available • High Blood Pressure • Diabetes • Joint & Muscle Pain • Lung Problems We offer Osteopathic Manipulation 530 528-2066 2050 Main St, Red Bluff Accepting New Patients Party Packages (3 to choose from) Contact us about our 527-2720 365 S. Main St. Red Bluff or visit our website @ www.lariatbowl.com over drifts and trudged through knee-deep snow in some places. Numerous people simply gave up try- ing to use the sidewalks, instead walking down the middle of partially plowed streets. Some New Yorkers complained that snowplow crews were neglecting neighborhoods in the outer boroughs in favor of Man- hattan. A testy Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city’s cleanup effort, saying the furious pace of the snowfall — 2 to 3 inches per hour — required crews to plow streets repeatedly to keep them open. And aban- doned cars slowed the process further because plows could not get through, he said. ‘‘It’s being handled by the best professionals in the business,’’ Bloomberg said, urging people not to get upset. ‘‘It’s a snowstorm, and it really is inconvenient for a lot of people.’’ At the Manchester Boston Regional Airport outside Manchester, N.H., 25-year-old Alicia Kinney slept overnight on benches in the baggage claim area before moving to the food court for a soda in the morn- ing. ‘‘I’m trying to stay posi- Tehama District Jr. Livestock the phone at his office. ‘‘I guess they took a snow day, too.’’ In New York, many pas- sengers tired of waiting around couldn’t have left even if they wanted to. 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