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New York City was bracing on Friday for its biggest snowfall in more than three years.
The area in and around the city was expected to get 6 to 9 inches of snow over the weekend, with up to 10 inches predicted in some areas. That would qualify as a major storm in a region where hardly a foot of snow has accumulated in some places for three straight winters. Forecasts called for snow to begin Friday afternoon, peak overnight and then taper off early Saturday.
The snow, coming quickly after Christmas, will fall on one of the year’s busiest travel weekends and threatens to scramble travel plans for millions of people across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The region was deep in preparation Friday afternoon. City and state agencies in New York were brining streets and highways with liquid salt and lining up snow plows for deployment. Airlines were canceling flights at New York’s three major airports. New Jersey had declared a state of emergency, and storm warnings were in effect across southeastern New York, northern New York, western Connecticut and eastern Pennsylvania.
In Port Jervis, N.Y., about an hour and a half northwest of Manhattan on the Delaware River, residents flocked to Berthiaume’s Neversink Lumber Co. to snap up shovels, antifreeze and ice-melting salts. Workers hustled to replenish the quickly dwindling stock….
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Agencies across the city and state were in full-on storm preparation mode on Friday, well before a single flake had fallen. The city’s emergency management department said Wednesday that it had activated its winter weather emergency plan and was working closely with the Weather Service and state agencies.
City sanitation workers began laying liquid-based salt brine on streets and highways at midnight to help limit the accumulation of snow and ice. The agency had also lined up more than 700 salt spreaders for roads, highways and bike lanes, a spokesman said. Plans were in place to deploy the Sanitation Department’s fleet of 2,200 snowplows once two inches of snow had fallen.
Outside the city, Ms. Hochul said the state was planning to deploy more than 1,600 large plow trucks….
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