Subject: Urgent! Current situation in the US
From: Pritish Nandi <[email-masked]>
To: "Siddiqui, Khubrooh" <[email-masked]>, "Rao, Kartik" <[email-masked]>, Pratibha <[email-masked]>, "p. walia, akhil" <[email-masked]>, "Jangra, Amandeep" <[email-masked]>, iftekhar <[email-masked]>, "Guo, Vivian" <[email-masked]>, "Gogia, Sumit" <[email-masked]>, "G, Gelna" <[email-masked]>, "Dutt, Sanjay" <[email-masked]>, "Chakma, Subir" <[email-masked]>, "Anwar, Sadique" <[email-masked]>, "Ahmed, Mohd" <[email-masked]>, "Blythe R. Delfino, Kaeiara" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:13:42 +0530 (IST)

This is the current situation in the US regarding the weather;

At approx. 1pm EST (6pm UK time) yesterday snow began to fall over several cities, this had gotten worse through the day and overnight in such cities as Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for a 250-mile stretch of the Northeast.

A State of emergency has been declared over several northeast states, State Governors and Mayors have placed a travel ban on roads since yesterday evening and public transport was closed at 11pm including NYC Subway until further notice.

Expected snowfall is around 30in (76cm) of snow expected, with winds of up to 55mph (88kph) are also predicted, raising the prospect of power outages caused by trees falling on power lines.

Airlines have cancelled over 6,500 flights with 1,700 delayed.

 

The situation is being closely monitored, Please expect some service impacts when shipping to the US.

Regards,
Pritish Nandi