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Governors have declared states of emergencies from Louisiana to New Jersey due to a massive snow and ice storm. A National Weather Service memo calls the storm "an event of historical proportions," identifying it as "catastrophic ... crippling ... paralyzing ... choose your adjective." The storm has already caused at least 13 deaths and left 550,000 without power. We speak to Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground.
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Governors have declared states of emergencies from Louisiana to New Jersey due to a massive snow and ice storm. A National Weather Service memo issued Wednesday called the storm "an event of historical proportions," identifying it as, quote, "catastrophic ... crippling ... paralyzing ... choose your adjective." The storm has already been blamed for at least 13 deaths. Meanwhile, 550,000 people have lost power in the Southeast due to the ice storm, more than a third of them in Georgia where highways across the state are closed because of icing and downed power lines. Federal offices have been closed in Washington, D.C.
AMY GOODMAN: For more, we go to Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground. He’s joining us byDemocracy Now! video stream from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Jeff, give us a lay of the land right now throughout the East Coast of the United States.
JEFF MASTERS: Yeah, this storm is bringing snowfall rates as high as three inches per hour right now to the Philadelphia area. It’s an inch an hour in New York City. They’ve already had a foot of snow in Baltimore. And then, back over Georgia and South Carolina, up to about a half-inch of freezing rain and ice, which caused all those power outages.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And this is one huge storm across the eastern part of the United States now, or is it several weather patterns?
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