Two winter storms lumbering across parts of the United States on Wednesday disru...
- Two winter storms lumbering across parts of the United States on Wednesday disrupted the travel plans of millions of Americans who typically jam the country’s highways and airports to visit family and friends over the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Snowfall totals in and around Minneapolis had reached 6 to 8 inches by Wednesday morning before topping out at up to 12 inches as the system slides to the east, said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland. On the other side of the country, a second major storm was slamming Oregon and Northern California, where damaging winds, coastal flooding and heavy mountain snows of up to 4 feet were forecast.
Even as the storms bought rain, snow and high winds to the Upper Midwest and far Western states, they spared the highly populated East Coast and central Midwest, which were also expected to fare well as travelers go back home on Sunday.The weather woes set in as a near-record 55 million Americans follow through on their plans to use to planes, trains and automobiles to travel at least 50 miles for Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday, according to the American Automobile Association.
“It’s a normal day here,” said management consultant Nimish Mittal, 26, as he and his wife Slesha, who live in Manhattan and got to the airport early for lines that never materialized, awaited their flight to Kansas City, where they both have families.
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