Philadelphia declared a snow emergency Tuesday night, while public schools there and in Boston were closed.
Menino said the city's snow emergency and parking ban will be lifted at 9 a.m.
For, as Espen points out, if we didn't treat snow as an emergency, we wouldn't get our snow days.
I. (AP) New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.
Mountain rescue teams are preparing to assist other emergency services as heavy snow hits the North East.
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In addition, assistance is available to State and eligible local governments on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures, including snow assistance, for a continuous 48-hour period during or proximate to the incident period.
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With historic snow totals and widespread power outages possible, emergency-management agencies set contingency plans into motion.
Even plows were mired in the snow or blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers had to resort to snowmobiles to try to reach motorists.
They expect to have 250, 000 cubic meters saved up by the games an emergency backup supply in case the 430 snow machines that are being installed don't suffice.
Non-emergency federal employees were treated to a paid snow day for the number of hours they were scheduled to work.
Later, an emergency lane change and braking maneuver in the snow at 35 miles per hour felt almost as secure as if on a dry road.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he lifted the "weather emergency" on Wednesday, as salting crews and snow plows finished clearing city streets.
In Virginia, where the snow was heavier, Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency.
New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo later declared a state of emergency to give local governments more flexibility in handling the anticipated snow fall, saying New York City and Long Island would be worst hit.
Isle of Man farmers are set to receive emergency support as the search continues for thousands of livestock buried in the snow.
The region had been hit by two inches of snow over Christmas but the bad weather is not thought to have been behind the emergency landing.
Valls paid tribute to the efforts of the emergency workers, French and Italian, who searched in perilous conditions of snow, ice and wind from the early morning for those who were missing.
Northern Ireland's agriculture committee is holding an emergency weather meeting to assess the damage caused to NI farms by the heavy snow.
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.
At one point Friday night, for instance, Connecticut's emergency management agency warned on Twitter that "a wide ban of extremely heavy snow" was moving through the central and eastern parts of the Nutmeg State, dropping snow at a staggering rate of 4 to 5 inches an hour.
Numerous accidents were reported in the area, and Mayor Sly James declared the emergency in an unwanted encore to a major snowstorm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on his city just five days earlier.
It said "more than a dozen" emergency calls had been received over the weekend on behalf of people injured while riding in the snow.
An emergency helpline led to hundreds of people coming forward to help find sheep and cattle lost in the snow.
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