While being spared the 26” that some weather forecasters had predicted, area airports still suffered delays from the severe storm that hit the New York area on Saturday. JFK had approximately 16”, LaGuardia slightly less and Newark had a fraction under a foot of snow as officially reported. All of the airports were prepared for the storm and crews worked through the night. Services were back to normal by late Sunday afternoon. While the airports did all they could to keep services going, the sheer magnitude of the storm had an effect on travelers. All three area airports reported hundreds of cancellations and widespread delays, with the first flight since Saturday arriving at LaGuardia at mid morning on Sunday. Hundreds of passengers were stranded overnight at the airports, sleeping in lounges and waiting areas. A 747 cargo plane from Polar Airlines skidded off a runway at JFK, but no one was injured. The barrier recently erected to prevent aircraft from running off the runway into more dangerous areas effectively prevented further damage or injury. Regionally, large parts of the Northeastern United States lay buried under several feet of snow on Sunday by a blizzard that severely curbed air and road travel and cut power to thousands of customers. A powerful storm that

Boston’s Logan Airport shut down as crews could not keep runways clear amid near-whiteout conditions. Major airports in Connecticut and Rhode Island were also shuttered on Sunday. The storm hit Rhode Island particularly hard, with snow falling on that state at a rate of 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) an hour, one official said. States of emergency were declared in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, with National Guard troops helping to clear roads and evacuate citizens from coastal areas. New Jersey lifted a travel ban imposed on Saturday on non-emergency vehicles, but officials asked residents to keep off the roads if possible. Philadelphia Airport’s two main runways were open after heavy snow caused the airport to close for five hours, causing the cancellation of 960 flights, an airport spokesman said.

see on one mile of taxiway. Vehicles were used to shuttle the passengers to and from the General Aviation Terminal. The General Services Administration set up a 24 hour command center at the FBO to coordinate the security activities which was securing buildings, hangars, vehicle access, parking ramps and the hundreds of private aircraft. Planning for this event had gone on for a year with the FBO to make sure that everything had been covered. There was no room for error.

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