– Trash to linger –
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said while there had been “a lot of progress” Sunday, there would be no trash collection on Monday and Tuesday, and urged people to keep vehicles off the roads for at least another 24 hours.
“We expect that with the temperature dropping tonight and for every night this week, that we will see continued slick and dangerous roadways,” she told a news conference.
“We want to have tomorrow to continue to keep cars off the road so that we can clear those major arteries and also clear the places where many people who come to our downtown would normally park.”
Beyond the Big Apple and the US capital, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia were the hardest-hit areas. A few locations surpassed one-day and two-day snow records, said the National Weather Service.
The fatalities occurred in Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia.
In New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie, a Republican presidential contender who left the campaign trail to oversee the emergency response in his state, asked people to take care.
“This is very heavy snow so I ask that they please be careful as they clean up their own property today or their businesses,” he said.
Many of the storm-related deaths were people who suffered heart attacks while shoveling.
Hundreds of thousands were left without power at the height of the storm, including nearly 150,000 outages in North Carolina alone, emergency officials said.
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