Frozen over again

By KATHY MATHESON and MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Associated Press Published:


In Ohio, the northern half of the state is under a wind chill advisory through 11 a.m. today.


It was blamed for at least one death in Maryland after a car fishtailed into the path of a tractor-trailer on a snow-covered road about 50 miles northwest of Baltimore. The car's driver was thrown from the vehicle.

In Campbelltown, Pa., Ralph Duquette kept close tabs on the weather because his wife needed to go to Washington's Dulles Airport for a flight to London. But those plans were thrown into doubt when an 18-wheeler went into a ditch, hindering her route to the airport.

She was trying instead to get a flight out of Newark, N.J., but Duquette added: "Don't think she's going to get there."


Washington was expecting 4 to 8 inches snow.



"Lots of nuisance storms this season have meant that PennDOT crews have been plowing and treating roads more frequently this winter," spokeswoman Erin Waters-Trasatt said.




Standing in Philadelphia's LOVE Park with snow swirling around her, visitor Jenn Byrne of Portland, Ore., said the nasty weather put a crimp in her plans to do a "giant walking tour" of the city. But she vowed to soldier on, taking cabs instead of trudging. She wasn't wearing snow boots.

"I'll keep going. Just the means of transportation will change a bit," Byrne said.

Others shrugged off the snow as well.

In Herndon, Va., where voters were casting ballots in a special election that was likely to determine control of the state Senate, Earlene Coleman said she felt obligated to make her selection: "It only made sense to come out and do my duty."


"If you don't work, you don't get paid," he said, adding that deep cold is good for business. "We're trying to get stuff insulated so it doesn't freeze up."


With federal workers given the day off, Tom Ripley, who works at a Washington hardware store, said his morning commute was cut in half because "there was almost no one on the road." He said the store was jammed Monday as customers stocked up on ice melt and shovels.

"Nobody prepares because we never get any snow, so the slightest chance of it, everybody freaks out," Ripley said.


Rubinkam reported from northeastern Pennsylvania. Associated Press writers Matt Moore in Philadelphia, David Dishneau in Hagerstown, Md., Matthew Barakat in Herndon, Va., and Jessica Gresko in Washington contributed to this report.

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