United States Postal Service carrier Tip Burnett uses a rubber hammer to open a frozen mailbox at the National Guard armory in Rogers, Arkansas. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
United States Postal Service carrier Tip Burnett uses a rubber hammer to open a frozen mailbox at the National Guard armory in Rogers, Arkansas. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
Ilona Chisholm, 13 months, helps her mom shovel snow out of their driveway using a rake in Cohassett. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
Semi-trucks disappear into the white snow as they travel along I-70, near Boonville. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
Rush hour traffic crawls as blowing snow batters Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: Reuters
Snow plows move in tandem in this view through a frosted windshield on US 150 east of Urbana. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
A man walks to his stranded vehicle in an attempt to dig it out from the snow during a blizzard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: Reuters
A Kansas City Scout sign warns motorists along I-70. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
Ila Dooley works to dig her car out to try and get to work in Owasso, Oklahoma. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
A car that hit a snowbank is towed during a winter storm in Hartford. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
A four-year-old Iowa girl who climbed her way out of an overturned pickup truck and trudged a across a field covered in 30cm of snow said she just "wanted to help" her mother and younger brother.
Commuters brave blowing snow as they cross Michigan Avenue in Chicago. A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the heartland of the United States with snow, high winds and freezing rain, and experts said the worst was still to come as the monster event moved northeast and temperatures plunged. Photo: Reuters
Snow plows work to remove ice and sleet from Interstate 55 in St Louis. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: AP
A Dallas police officer removes snow from his car after a storm front moved through Dallas, Texas. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: Reuters
A man fishes in Lake Michigan in Chicago. A huge winter storm pummelled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. Power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of people. Commuters in New York were disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work. The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. Photo: Reuters
Published Feb 2, 2011
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A huge winter storm pummeled the United States, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering another wintry swipe to the Northeast and disrupting flights and other transport. The storm, touching some 30 states and a third of the US population, stretched from New Mexico to Maine and included another blast of winter in New York City. Power was cut to hundreds of thousands of people. The morning commute in New York was disrupted by the weather, preventing some financial traders from getting to work.
The storm delivered its strongest punch to the Midwest, dumping as much as three inches of snow an hour on Chicago during most of the night along with winds of up to 40 miles per hour.
