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Blizzard brings US Northeast to a halt

Travel at night “will be extremely hazardous, if not impossible,” it added.

Among the more glamorous victims of the travel upsets was designer Marc Jacobs, who said he had to reschedule his two shows at New York Fashion Week due to storm-related “production problems.”

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who came under withering criticism for the city’s flat-footed response to a blizzard in 2010, said residents should stock up with vital supplies and prepare for the worst.

“Stay off the city streets, stay out of your cars,” he said at a news conference. “Staying off the streets will make it easier for city workers to clear the streets of snow.”

New York’s four zoos also announced they were closing for the duration of the storm.

“You can’t take nature too lightly. Hopefully it won’t be anything too drastic,” Bloomberg said.

The good news was that the storm’s peak was due as the weekend began, meaning far fewer people would be on the roads. Forecasters said the system should blow through on Saturday, with milder temperatures to follow.

Locals were comparing the coming storm to the ferocious blizzard of 1978, which killed 100 people and buried Boston in more than 27 inches (69 centimeters) of snow and Providence, Rhode Island in nearly 28 inches.

During that storm, people were forced to abandon cars stuck on highways and made their way around Boston on cross country skis and snowshoes.

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