Chapter 3: Obstructions to the Revenue Laws from the temper of the People at the time of the Establishment of the Board of Customs.Chapter 2: Obstructions to the Collection of a Revenue in America from the extent of the Coast and the Nature of the Trade and Commerce.Chapter 1: Progress of American Revenue from the Act of the 6 th George II to the Establishment of a Board of Customs in America.Volume 80: Henry Hulton and the American Revolution.So he took a taxi to another branch of the supermarket. “It’s winter - what do you expect?” Rebecca Quinn said as she closed the Stannard Farm booth at a farmers market outside Columbia University.Īt the Fairway Market in West Harlem, Gregory Lorenz, a member of the Metropolitan Opera chorus, said he first went to another Fairway but couldn’t get in the door because of the crowd. Officials urged employers to allow workers to adjust their shifts to stay safe from the storm.īut residents greeted the dire forecasts with stressed-out shopping and not a small amount of shrugging. In New York City, which was blasted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, officials planned to store trains underground to shield them from the weather and to fit buses with snow tires.

With the heavy snow and 70 mph winds, there’s risks of wires being severed and things coming off buildings, scaffolding coming down.” “We still have a lot of above-ground lines. “My major concern is power outages,” Hoboken Police Chief Kenneth Ferrante said. In New Jersey, Hoboken emergency officials ordered scaffolding removed because of the expected heavy winds. He asked Boston residents to do their part by removing snow, slush and ice from sidewalks and curbs. “Our city has been through blizzards before, and I am confident we are prepared,” Walsh said in a statement. “Just as the state is monitoring and preparing, the public should do the same.”īoston Mayor Martin Walsh said he had been in “constant communication” with city officials as workers prepared 700 pieces of snow-removal equipment and 35,000 tons of salt. “Although storms can be unpredictable, this storm has the potential to have a significant impact on the state and we need to be prepared,” Connecticut Gov. Forecasters emphasized that the final snow totals could vary considerably depending on the storm’s movements over the next 48 hours. As the storm system travels up the coast, cold air is expected to move down from Canada behind it, causing temperatures to drop.Īs with Atlantic hurricanes, which follow a similar pattern, the blizzard’s severity will depend on how far off the coast the center of the storm tracks. Predictions for a blizzard worsened rapidly over the weekend as forecasters tracked a storm expected to move northward along the Atlantic coast over the next several days. (De Blasio, a populist Democrat from Brooklyn, was criticized a year ago, during his first month in office, after residents in Manhattan’s wealthy Upper East Side complained that snowplows were too slow in sweeping their streets.)Īt a news conference, De Blasio displayed a list of snowstorms since 1872 and warned, “We need to prepare for something worse than we’ve seen before.” The city’s record for a single storm is just over 26 inches of snow, which came in 2006. Airlines had canceled more than 1,400 Monday flights by Sunday evening, and more than 1,000 Tuesday flights, according to .ĭe Blasio urged residents to stay off the roads and take mass transit if possible to make way for hundreds of salt spreaders and snowplows to treat New York City’s 6,000 miles of roads.

Cuomo urged commuters to stay home Monday and said the Port Authority, which operates the region’s airports, would have cots on hand for stranded passengers. Officials began preparing equipment for snow removal and shelters for the homeless. Governors and mayors across the region called for residents to watch the forecast, stock up on supplies, and check on elderly and disabled neighbors who could be especially vulnerable.

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