KDOT Secretary Julie Lorenz called the worker experienced and dedicated. The cause of the single-vehicle crash is still under investigation, and it is unclear if it was weather-related. On Saturday at around 6 a.m., an equipment operator with the state transportation department died in a rollover accident while conducting snow removal operations on a highway in Johnson County, south of Kansas City, according to the agency and NBC affiliate KSHB of Kansas City. Kansas’ governor also declared a state of disaster emergency on Friday due to the storm. She said that running in snow is “like running in sand, so you have to go a lot slower.” “When you run a marathon, you run no matter the weather,” she told the Associated Press. Celeste Tremmel, 56, was out training for a marathon in Detroit on Saturday amid several inches of snow.
The snow didn’t stop some Midwesterners from enjoying the outdoors. Portland, Maine, could see between 12 and 18 inches of snow. Hartford, Connecticut, could get between 4 to 6 inches.
The weather service warned of an increasing threat of “significant ice accumulation” along and north of Interstate 78, which runs through the center of the state towards Newark and New York City.īoston could see between 4 and 6 inches of snow, and some parts of northwest Massachusetts could get between 8 to 12 inches, according to the weather service. Phil Murphy ordered a state of emergency that took effect at noon Saturday. The lower-end amounts, which is called a 90 percent probability, predicts snow and sleet beginning in Middletown and Poughkeepsie and extending north, according to the weather service.Ī public information officer for Indiana State Police on Saturday tweeted that the safest place for drivers during the next 24 hours is at home. Snow and sleet accumulation forecasts call for 4 inches for New York City under the highest precipitation models, if the storm tracks farther south than predicted. “We don’t know exactly what we’re going to be dealing with here, but we do know it’s a real storm,” with cold temperatures and the potential for icing, the mayor said, adding that officials are assuming “the worst, not the best.” He called the storm “an ever changing situation,” and encouraged residents to keep informed. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that precautions are being taken. New York City was battered by a snowstorm in November that snarled transportation in the city, and the government’s response and preparations were criticized.
“Travel could be very difficult to impossible,” the weather service said. A winter storm warning was in effect until 4 p.m. The National Weather Service said that cities including Utica could see heavy snow of 12 to 20 inches, with the heaviest snow expected Saturday night into early Sunday.
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