Damaging winds gusting up to 60 mph were expected to rip through Boston and other coastal areas. Those winds could prevent the giant balloons from taking flight this year at the Macy’s parade. Safety rules that specify wind speeds were enacted in New York after a spectator was killed in 1997 in an accident involving an out-of-control balloon.
Flight cancellations piled up at East Coast hubs. Flightstats.com is reporting as many as 628 flights cancelled and almost 6,000 delays at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday evening. But that was a fraction of the nearly 32,000 flights that were scheduled to, from or within the U.S. on Wednesday. And the weather in many places was improving as the day wore on. Most of the cancellations involved Newark, N.J., Philadelphia and New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
The storm system, which developed in the West, has been blamed for at least 11 deaths, half of them in Texas. It limped across Arkansas with a smattering of snow, sleet and freezing rain that didn’t meet expectations.
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