As people in the South and East readied themselves for a nor’easter that might bring heavy snowfall by week’s end, snow fell on much of Kentucky and Tennessee and contributed to at least one traffic-related death Wednesday.
The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center warns of heavy, “perhaps crippling” snow across the northern mid-Atlantic region, including Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, probably beginning Friday.
CBS Boston chief meteorologist Eric Fisher winter storm warnings had been issued from Arkansas to New Jersey. The Washington D.C. and Baltimore area, the expected epicenter of the storm, was under a blizzard watch. The watches start as early as Thursday and stretch into Saturday.
Fisher said the storm was expected to build into a “textbook nor’easter” as it moved up the East Coast from the Carolinas to southern New England and could drop 1-2 feet of snow.
The District of Columbia was preparing for blizzard conditions, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday. The city has requested Humvees from the National Guard to reach isolated people and places if necessary.
“If this is a blizzard and we have sustained winds and people lose power, that would be my biggest concern,” Bowser said at a news conference. “We can move the snow. We will move the snow.”
In a statement Wednesday night, Bowser told District residents to avoid the roads.(CBS/AP)
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