The consistent snow made life in Washington get in troubles. Forecasters said that the beginning of a storm might be the biggest for the nation's capital, warning of blizzard conditions on the way.
Snow was forecasted to be falling throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Strangely, the storm was blamed for hundreds of accidents and the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia. Because of the storm and expected outrages, electricity in West Virginia was almost cut off. The region suffered from two snowstorm, the second extremely dangerous one lasting in nearly two months. Roads faced the risk of being clogged and transportation and retail paralyze due to heavy, wet snow and strong winds. The region ill-equipped to copy with snow resulted in flight cancellation, school closure, and workers of the federal government.
The National Zoo closed early and the Smithsonian museums were on the point of being closed Saturday. According to U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser, Lincoln Memorial and other museums in Washington still open until there would be no good conditions. All flights through Saturday in urban Washington were postponed.
Heavy snow at an Indianapolis airport made Colts fans arrive early to catch flights to Miami. Few direct flights were late, thus travelers through Philadelphia and Washington had to make other arrangements.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of salt were prepared and thousands of trucks were used across the region. Some states would exhaust their snow removal budgets. Joan Morris, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Transportation said that that was a bad mix. It would be a tough storm for heavy, wet snow along with gusting winds. They would also have to face the problem of drifting snow.
Especially drifting snow with strong winds put Delaware and southern New Jersey in snowstorm warnings which were in effect for these two regions.
The National Weather Service, Washington said that they has got over a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870. The Magnitude of 28 inches in January 1922 was the heaviest.
