The famous freeway appeared as if rush hour had been stopped in time, with three lanes of cars cluttering the pavement amid snow drifts that stood as high as the windshields. Their cars were left behind and remained on the road Wednesday afternoon, still marooned, and one of the city's busiest roadways is still closed.
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And the city's iconic Lake Shore Drive remained shut down, nearly a day after drivers abandoned hundreds of snowbound vehicles.ĬBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports the unfortunate were led away on foot and, appropriately, snowmobiles.
More than a half-dozen states began digging out from up to a foot of snow that made roads treacherous and left hundreds of thousands of homes without power.Ĭhicago public schools canceled classes for a second straight day.
In at least two places, workers heard the structures beginning to crack and narrowly escaped. In the winter-weary Northeast, thick ice caused several structures to collapse, including a gas station canopy on Long Island and an airplane hangar near Boston.
A massive post-Christmas blizzard led to about 10,000 cancellations. The system was blamed for at least 10 deaths, including a homeless man who burned to death on New York's Long Island as he tried to light cans of cooking fuel and a woman in Oklahoma City who was killed while being pulled behind a truck on a sled that hit a guard rail.Īirport operations slowed to a crawl across the U.S., and flight cancellations reached 13,000 for the week, making this system the most disruptive so far this winter.
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