Go home. Stay there. Seriously. That's
the message government officials across the Northeast offered residents
Monday ahead of
what could be a blizzard of historic proportions
bearing down on the region.
"What
you're going to see in the (next) few hours is something that hits very
hard and very fast and people cannot be caught off guard," New York
Mayor Bill de Blasio said, warning that mass transit options will begin
to dwindle as the night wears on.
Private cars will be banned from using city streets as of 11 p.m, he said.
The
National Weather Service, which isn't prone to exaggeration, is using
terms like "life-threatening" and "historic" to describe the weather
system taking aim at the Northeast -- with the worst expected to hit
Monday night into Tuesday.
"This
is going to be a lot of snow, no matter how you add it up, so we are
going to be challenged," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
In
New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency, called out
the National Guard and said he may order everyone to stay put later
tonight, as governors in Connecticut and Massachusetts had already done.
In
Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency starting
at 6 p.m. ET Monday. Cars left parked on snow emergency routes will be
towed and owners ticketed, he said.
Source:CNN
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