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Winter Storm Buries Northeast U.S. In Snow
Aired January 04, 2003 - 07:05 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: A winter nor'easter is churning up the Eastern Seaboard and dumping heavy snow from New Jersey to New England. This is the view of Manchester, New Hampshire. Some parts of the state can expect about 15 inches of snow. Other parts will be buried under 30 inches, believe it or not. State officials say they're also digging out from mounting bills. Just the Christmas storm cost the state an estimated half million dollars. Yikes.
Snow weary folks in Rochester, New York may be already counting the days until spring there. The city has beaten last winter's entire snowfall by a half foot and still counting.
CNN's Jason Carroll is in Stratton, Vermont now, where undaunted skiers are slogging through a foot of fresh snow to get to the slopes. They love it, right -- Jason.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. This is good news for the people up here in Stratton, where skiing is a way of life. The snow is actually still coming down, even right now. I have to tell you, Heidi, the road up here was pretty treacherous. It took us about an hour to get up to this particular location. And, in fact, yesterday when the storm was at its fullest, the roads were treacherous, as well, especially in Connecticut.
We have some video of what it was like out there, two deaths reported on the roads there, although in terms of talking to highway officials from New York, no serious injuries or accidents reported on the roads out there. But I have to tell you, on the way up from New York City up to Vermont yesterday, we spotted at least a dozen cars on the side of the road last night.
I want to come back out and show you where I am here at this lovely ski resort. It's literally a winter wonderland up here. If you take a look at some of these cars out here, these people are going to be coming out this morning and they're going to be wondering what happened to the car? I mean you can see right here they've had about 18 inches, about a foot and a half of snow that has fallen so far. And this is what I'm using as my unofficial gauge here.
Jim, why don't you take a look. Right through here you can see how much snow. I think that's actually maybe even a little bit more than a foot and a half. What do you think? It looks like it.
Imagine having to shovel through all this? Well, I'm going to introduce you to Wallace out here. He's one of the guys that has that task of having to shovel his way through all this.
So, Wallace, it looks like you have your work cut out for you this morning.
WALLACE HOLDEN, STRATTON SKI RESORT: Yes, that we do.
CARROLL: Yes. Tell me about what you're going to have to do today. How long is it going to take you to do what you have to do?
HOLDEN: Well, I mean, it's obviously going to be more than a one day event.
CARROLL: Sure.
HOLDEN: But we will probably work all through the day, you know, 13, 14, 15 hours. Our plowers have been on all night and they'll probably stay on all day, a good 24 hours to keep up with this weather.
CARROLL: A 13 hour day. It sounds like what I have to do. But it's actually good news for the skiers, correct?
HOLDEN: Oh, definitely, yes. I mean they've got fresh powder up there. This is good snow. It's not wet. It's dry.
CARROLL: All right, Wallace, thanks very much.
HOLDEN: No problem.
CARROLL: Good luck.
HOLDEN: You, too.
CARROLL: Don't work too hard.
So, you heard it from Wallace there. Bad news if you're out on the road, good news if you happen to be out on skis -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Jason Carroll.
We certainly hope that Wallace has a snow blower, he doesn't have to do that all by hand.
CARROLL: Yes.
COLLINS: Thanks, Jason.
We'll check back later.
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Aired January 4, 2003 - 07:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: A winter nor'easter is churning up the Eastern Seaboard and dumping heavy snow from New Jersey to New England. This is the view of Manchester, New Hampshire. Some parts of the state can expect about 15 inches of snow. Other parts will be buried under 30 inches, believe it or not. State officials say they're also digging out from mounting bills. Just the Christmas storm cost the state an estimated half million dollars. Yikes.
Snow weary folks in Rochester, New York may be already counting the days until spring there. The city has beaten last winter's entire snowfall by a half foot and still counting.
CNN's Jason Carroll is in Stratton, Vermont now, where undaunted skiers are slogging through a foot of fresh snow to get to the slopes. They love it, right -- Jason.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. This is good news for the people up here in Stratton, where skiing is a way of life. The snow is actually still coming down, even right now. I have to tell you, Heidi, the road up here was pretty treacherous. It took us about an hour to get up to this particular location. And, in fact, yesterday when the storm was at its fullest, the roads were treacherous, as well, especially in Connecticut.
We have some video of what it was like out there, two deaths reported on the roads there, although in terms of talking to highway officials from New York, no serious injuries or accidents reported on the roads out there. But I have to tell you, on the way up from New York City up to Vermont yesterday, we spotted at least a dozen cars on the side of the road last night.
I want to come back out and show you where I am here at this lovely ski resort. It's literally a winter wonderland up here. If you take a look at some of these cars out here, these people are going to be coming out this morning and they're going to be wondering what happened to the car? I mean you can see right here they've had about 18 inches, about a foot and a half of snow that has fallen so far. And this is what I'm using as my unofficial gauge here.
Jim, why don't you take a look. Right through here you can see how much snow. I think that's actually maybe even a little bit more than a foot and a half. What do you think? It looks like it.
Imagine having to shovel through all this? Well, I'm going to introduce you to Wallace out here. He's one of the guys that has that task of having to shovel his way through all this.
So, Wallace, it looks like you have your work cut out for you this morning.
WALLACE HOLDEN, STRATTON SKI RESORT: Yes, that we do.
CARROLL: Yes. Tell me about what you're going to have to do today. How long is it going to take you to do what you have to do?
HOLDEN: Well, I mean, it's obviously going to be more than a one day event.
CARROLL: Sure.
HOLDEN: But we will probably work all through the day, you know, 13, 14, 15 hours. Our plowers have been on all night and they'll probably stay on all day, a good 24 hours to keep up with this weather.
CARROLL: A 13 hour day. It sounds like what I have to do. But it's actually good news for the skiers, correct?
HOLDEN: Oh, definitely, yes. I mean they've got fresh powder up there. This is good snow. It's not wet. It's dry.
CARROLL: All right, Wallace, thanks very much.
HOLDEN: No problem.
CARROLL: Good luck.
HOLDEN: You, too.
CARROLL: Don't work too hard.
So, you heard it from Wallace there. Bad news if you're out on the road, good news if you happen to be out on skis -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Jason Carroll.
We certainly hope that Wallace has a snow blower, he doesn't have to do that all by hand.
CARROLL: Yes.
COLLINS: Thanks, Jason.
We'll check back later.
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