U.S. East Coast in mess after record-setting storm

WASHINGTON. December 21. KAZINFORM The U.S. East Coast struggled Sunday to deal with the aftermath of a monster winter storm that brought record-setting snowfall to many areas, disrupting holiday travel and leaving at least five people dead; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
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Storm warnings for New York, Massachusetts, and much of southeastern New England lifted as the storm vanished out to sea Sunday afternoon.

RECORD-SETTING BLIZZARD

Since midnight Friday, 12 states on the east seaboard from North Carolina to Maine have been hit by a blizzard that dumped record amounts of snow for December and unleashed wind gusts of up to 104 km per hour in some areas.

Washington, D.C. was reeling from the largest one-day December snowfall in history, with totals of 40 cm to 61 cm in the region.

Washington's Dulles International and Reagan National airports saw snowfall of 45.7 cm and 41.6 cm, respectively -- the highest ever one-day totals for December. The previous record at Dulles was in December 1964 while at Reagan National, it was in December 1932.

Philadelphia, Pa., had 58.9 cm of snow, the second-biggest single snowfall there since it began keeping records in 1884.

Snowfalls of 61 cm or more were reported in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York.

New York City received 25.6 cm of snow in Central Park and 36.8 cm at John F. Kennedy airport, amounting to its largest snowfall in several years.

Hundreds of thousands of homes lost power as the storm swept eastward on Friday and Saturday, including 135,000 in West Virginia.

Many people in Virginia and Maryland remained without power Sunday morning.

In western North Carolina, about 46,000 households had no power Sunday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

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