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Brilio.net/en - A massive blizzard, nicknamed the Snowzilla, that hit the United States (US) East Coast this weekend has finally given way to brilliant sunshine as the temperatures rose on Sunday, enabling the millions of people who were forced into hibernation to dig their way back to reality.
While the storm is now over, the aftermath is still paralyzing the East Coast, and has left tens of thousands of people without power, resulting in nearly 12,000 flight cancellations over the weekend.
The storm paralyzed the suburbs of Washington, D.C. with over 56 centimeters snow, before moving on to Philadelphia and New York, freezing road, rail and airline travel along the East Coast. The 68 centimeters of snow that fell in New York's Central Park was the second-highest accumulation since records began in 1869.
But as temperature rose, the US East Coast emerged from its long sleep as roads were reopened throughout the city. Thousands of people, including children, flocked to parks in order to play in the snow and build snowmen, putting on snowball, organizing snowball fights, and preparing for cross-country skis as well as snowboards in a gleaming winter wonderland under the sunshine.
These pictures sum up the actual snowstorm:
1. Smiling Jose Sanchez (left), and Irwin Perez shovel their way out, following a winter storm Sunday (24/1), in Chambersburg, Philadelphia.
2. Result of massive snowstorm; cars buried in Union City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Midtown Manhattan.
3. Intense storm over the East Coast captured in a NASA picture; taken from the International Space Station (ISS), Saturday (23/1).
4. A man seemed like trying to conquer high snow drifts in Union City, New Jersey.
5. Central Park has turned into a kind of foresty setting of a thriller movie.
6 & 7. Among the unusual sights: a boy crashes his sled on a hill at the U.S. Capitol, while a man is on skis.
Photo: reuters
8. More cars buried under dunes of snow in the Park Slope neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio asked New York City residents to leave their cars where they are to prevent snows from the car heaping up the street again while the city is trying to clear from the blizzard.
9. More than 18 centimeters of snow fell on Washingtons streets overnight into Saturday morning.
10. A man digs out of over 60 centimeters of snow in Great Falls, Virginia just outside of the Washington DC Beltway.
11. As the storm is over and sunshine came out in Swarthmore, Virginia, its time for babies and dogs to join in snowball fights.
12. What an obvious difference, just one day away.
(brl/tis)
