Winter storm hits Northeast, causing difficult driving, closed schools and canceled flights
livemint.comsnowstorm hit the Northeast on Tuesday canceling and delaying flights, making roads slippery and prompting many school districts to cancel classes or switch to remote learning —- or at least try to switch. In New York City, the online learning system that serves the nation’s largest school district experienced technical problems first thing in the morning, preventing many of the 915,000 students from logging in. More than 1,000 flights were canceled Tuesday morning, mostly at the airports in the New York City area and in Boston.
Accidents were reported across the region and several states banned tandem and empty tractor-trailers from highways. Some areas in Pennsylvania and Connecticut were hit with 15 inches (38 centimeters) of snow, while other parts saw smaller accumulations than anticipated, the National Weather Service said. The Massachusetts coast saw high wind gusts, the agency said.
“It’s been a quiet winter, so it’s kind of welcoming," Ricky Smith said as he made his way to a construction job in New York City. "I just hope nobody gets hurt." The city's decision to push ahead with remote learning instead of declaring a snow day drew criticism from many parents and students, and the problems with the online system exacerbated the discontent. School officials said they were working with IBM to fix the issue, which they said involved authentication services.
Chong Bretillon, a parent in Queens, said she received repeated errors as she tried to gain entry to a Zoom room for her elementary school student, while messaging with dozens of other parents who were encountering the same problems. “I just spent almost an hour trying to log in and log out," Bretillon said. “Everyone’s frustrated." New York Mayor Eric Adams
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