Bomb cyclone causes 73-car smash as bad weather leaves 1,200 flights canceled and 100,000 without power
A “BOMB CYCLONE” has caused a massive 73-car smash as the bad weather strikes large parts of the East Coast, forcing 1,200 flights to be canceled.
The huge pile-up occurred in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania State Police said, leaving Route 581 closed for hours.
The crash was reported shortly after 2pm on 581 east, between exit 5 to Gettysburg/Camp Hill (Route 11/15) and exit 6 to Interstate 83 south toward York.
Trooper Megan Ammerman said on Twitter there had been multiple injuries but none were life threatening and warned people to stay away from the area.
There was also travel chaos in the air with 1,290 flights canceled today and a further 5,521 delayed, according to the website .
Some 20 million people from Tennessee up through Maine are under some sort of winter weather alert, according to the National Weather Service.
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Around 100,000 customers are currently without power, according to .
Over in Florida, a number of buildings and cars were damaged by an apparent tornado Saturday morning in Ocala.
The National Weather Service will officially determine if a tornado caused the damage.
The line of strong storms was moving into the Orlando area and will quickly move off the east coast of Florida later Saturday afternoon.
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The National Weather Service said 7 to 12 inches of snow could be expected in northern areas of Pennsylvania and New York with winds gusting as high as 45 mph.
Philadelphia residents, while expecting only a few inches of snow, were warned that blizzard-like conditions were possible at one point, and later a flash freeze was possible with wet surfaces rapidly becoming icy due to plummeting temperatures.
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Gale warnings were in effect in coastal New Jersey and Delaware areas, with gusts of 40 to 50 mph possible and forecasters warning of tree damage and resulting power outages as well as rough boating conditions. A wind advisory was in effect for other areas.
Meteorologist Andrew Orrison of the weather service office in College Park, Maryland, said moderate to heavy snow had fallen over a rather large area of the eastern United States, but the storm was moving quickly to the northeast.
Tennessee was also struck by a snowstorm Friday night as the temperature dropped by 39 degrees in 10 hours, according to National Weather Service Nashville data.
The Nashville region and its westward neighbors received 2-4 inches of snow, according to a NWS Nashville map.
It was the snowiest March for Nashville since 2015, NWS Nashville tweeted.
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The Tennessee Department of Transportation reported a series of multivehicle crashes on major Nashville region interstates.
At one point, there were three multi-vehicle crashes on Interstate 24 that all occurred in the same area near Antioch in both the eastbound and westbound lanes. There were other wrecks on Interstate 440 in southern Nashville and on Interstate 65 in northern Nashville, the reports.
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