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New York City Department Of Education, (AP) – A severe winter storm that closed much of the southeastern coast Wednesday brewed dumping wet, heavy snow across the Northeast and save his fist the most brutal of New England, where hundreds car and spun on schools and businesses close.

Armies of plows and salt trucks hit the streets across the region to stem the chaos during the shuttle on Wednesday morning. In Connecticut, where nearly 2 feet of snow had fallen and that yet to come, state police responded to about 500 spin-offs, fender benders and disabled vehicles. Four minor injuries were reported.

“Troopers are a disabled vehicle to another,” said Lt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the department.

In New York, where officials have strongly criticized the slow response to a snowstorm on Dec. 26, the morning commute was a promising start with the permission of plows streets blocked for days by the last storm. Nearly 9 inches fell in Central Park, well away from the storm of 20 inches last month dumped on the city.

New England, however, seems to be caught off guard by the ferocity of the storm. Governor Dannel P. Malloy, the first state through what threatened to be his first disaster, ordered a double change of government soldiers on the highways.

Heavy snow and gusty closed hundreds of schools and businesses in Maine and New Hampshire southward.

“You can not see across the street. The wind and snow blowing about 40 mph on the side,” said Artie Perrin, CEO of Kelly Roast Beef in Revere, north of Boston.

Ridgefield, Connecticut, had 22 inches of snow at 8 pm, and Danbury is 18 inches. In Bridgeport, the largest city in the state, a state of emergency was declared and the snow only city employees and a board of education essential to the operations of storm were expected to work. In Maine, an inch of snow per hour was snowplows had trouble keeping up.

All flights in and out of Logan Airport in Boston have been delayed. New York LaGuardia Airport canceled 675 flights, Kennedy Airport and Newark Liberty 300 440. Philadelphia Airport has reported about 20 flights canceled dozens of overseas arrivals and 100 canceled, but the spokeswoman Victoria Lupica expected things to be back in full by noon.

Officials warned motorists to stay on the road from Carolina to Maine. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick noted the reports of swarming and disoriented motorists heading in the wrong direction on highways.

In New Jersey, relatively few problems were reported Wednesday and plows were in force. The locals have been keeping an eye on the governor Chris Christie, who left for family vacation Disney World in Orlando, Fla., just before the Christmas storm hit the Northeast, although his lieutenant governor has also been out of state.

Christie, who was heavily criticized for the trip, said that he and the lieutenant governor would not be out of state at the same time again and has even joked last week about “shovel myself” people to dig out of snow if necessary.

The storm was the third to hit New York in less than three weeks after the Dec. 26 blizzard paralysis and a 2-inch to dust last week.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said crew’s work even harder after criticism of how the city handled the storm, when hundreds of streets were not plowed, subway riders were stranded and medical calls unanswered because ambulances could not move in the snowy streets.

In Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, an area paralyzed by the storm last month, all major and minor streets were plowed by Wednesday morning. Some cars have slipped on the slush.

“It will be difficult during rush hour difficult,” Bloomberg said Tuesday. “The storm is expected to be at times heavier than some before rush hour, and there is no way that our city plows can access all of the 6,000 streets in a couple of hours.”

The city was ready on Wednesday with more than 300 salt spreaders, 1,700 plows and 200 front-end loaders, backhoes and Bobcats. Health workers were on 12-hour shifts.

Seth Andrews, a spokesman for the Office of the City Emergency Management, said about half past three no serious problems were reported, although some vehicles were immobilized. He said the teams were in full force to handle any emergency.

Snow and ice had closed much of the South for two days before the storm have joined forces with another from the Midwest and swept north.

Road crews had no winter gear, salt and sand to clear roads, and millions of people just stayed home. Mail delivery has been limited, and many schools and other closed institutions. The storm was blamed for 11 deaths and numerous other injuries.

Some schools remained closed Wednesday in western North Carolina, as well as schools of Charlotte, the largest city in the state. Workers reported clearing highways of progress but warned many secondary roads remain dangerous because of ice. Winter was a notice in effect until noon in the northwestern South Carolina that up to 9 inches of slush on the roads refreeze.

Despite the drawbacks, Southerners face the next day with patience and a measure of wonder.

Lynn Marentette, a school psychologist who lives south of Charlotte, NC, stayed home after classes were canceled. She spent Tuesday catching up with friends on Facebook and children who watch a sled down a hill nearby – and ignored the pile of paperwork on his desk.

“It’s a great, great day out there,” she said. “I have documents and things that I really do put out, but how often do you have a chance to enjoy the snow? ”

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Frank Eltman in Carle Place, NY; Kiley Armstrong, Sara Kugler Frazier, Chris Hawley, Karen Matthews and Ula Ilnytzky in New York, Beth DeFalco in Trenton, New Jersey, Dorie Turner and Don Schanche Errin Haines in Atlanta; Bill Poovey in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Gary D. Robertson in Raleigh, NC

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Little Caesars Bowl

Little Caesars Bowl, The San Diego State Aztecs have a chance to close their season with a victory rally bowl in front of tens of thousands of their fans.
It’s a scenario that seems unlikely without doubt most of these rippers two years ago, when Brady Hoke was hired as coach the Aztecs. But it did not take long for him to turn around the program.

The Aztecs (8-4) will play Navy (9-3) in the Poinsettia Bowl today, one of three playoff games during the holiday weekend. The Hawaii Bowl will be held Friday in Honolulu between Tulsa (9-3) and Hawaii (10-3), and Little Caesars is Bowl Sunday in Detroit, corresponding to Toledo (8-4) and Florida International (6 – 6).

San Diego State is in the playoffs for the first time since 1998 and earned his debut win in 12 years. But Qualcomm Stadium, several days of heavy rain left the field under several inches of water about 24 hours before kickoff.

“We intend to kick off at 5:06 pm PT,” the general manager Bruce Binkowski told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “The stadium grounds crew will work ’round the clock to ensure they get in the game.”

A nine-victory season would give the Aztecs their most wins since 1977 the team was 10-1. “These kids did a great job. My challenge to them is now we have to end, “Hoke said.

Tornado In Queens

Tornado In Queens, Flash storm, tornado warnings to be fed through New York last week Gorod, with winds up to 70 mph downing trees, damaging buildings and destroying vehicles and killing at least one person.

Severe weather wreaked havoc on the transportation system of the city in the middle of the night journey. All services Long Island Rail Road was suspended from Manhattan, in conjunction with the downed trees on tracks near Sunnyside, Queens. LIRR service was also interrupted between Brooklyn and Queens, and only 7 subway line has been out for several hours.

Some roads were closed to traffic due to debris. A woman died when a tree fell on his car in the Grand Central Parkway near Jewel Avenue, authorities said.
The storm knocked out power to more than 24,000 customers in Queens and 4800 households in Staten Island, according to Con Edison. More than 570 customers were without power in Brooklyn. New Jersey, government officials say about 40,000 homes were without electricity following the storm.

Almost an hour after the storm passed, 911 plates were flooded with calls from an injury, but it was unclear how many were considered serious, the representative of the Fire Department said. The spokesman said several firefighters responded to the scene in Queens and Brooklyn, where motorists were trapped in the car after tree falls on them.

Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority LIRR urged passengers to “remain calm at this time” instead of heading to Penn Station or Jamaica. New passengers were turned away from Penn Station, “he said.

MTA was the mobilization of buses to take passengers to the LIRR station in Jamaica, Queens, to the point of this, but Donovan urged passengers not to travel to Jamaica due to the limited capacity of the bus.

Although tornadoes have never been officially announced, assistant training time reported seeing a funnel cloud about two miles north-northeast of the area of the Huguenots of Staten Island, according to the National Weather Service, Sean Potter. Wind speeds of 70 miles per hour were evaluated in Staten Island, while parts of Brooklyn, saw sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, said Potter.

Brandon Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Upland, New York, said the agency had received “numerous reports of damage in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, as a result of the storm.” First of all damage to trees, large branches all over the place, “he said.

Smith said officials from the National Weather Service must wait for daylight to return before they could see the storm damage, to determine, in fact, a tornado struck the city. “The way the damage is in the earth can give many clues,” he said. “In the Tornado, you can see signs of rotation in the trash.”

But city residents are not waiting for the official definition. “A very strong wind,” said a fruit vendor Abul Kashem, 35, who lost about $ 800 and fruit in the storm, when his car near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was overturned. He insisted that the winds of a tornado, a tornado. ”

“I have the luck that I’m safe,” said Kashem, who took refuge under the scaffold, which eventually collapsed, forcing him to hide in the lobby of a brown building. “My basket of fruit is gone.”

Carolyn Davis returned to his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn to find a great loss. “The ceiling in the back of what I see, has been completely cut off. Lantern in Busted” he said.

The proof of the damage caused by possible tornadoes can be found on the Internet minutes after the tornado warning expired at 6:00 pm Photos are available in the service of images to share Twitter have shown, which suffered structural damage to the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. Flickr Photos published in SUV was crushed by a fallen tree in Brooklyn, as well as significant damage to the pavement.

The last tornado to strike the city was this summer, according to the National Weather Service, when weak twister touched down in the Bronx.