Northeast digs out from latest snowstorm
New York - A winter-weary North was returning to normal Friday morning after a storm dumped a thick layer of snow in the region.
Buses were back in service in New York on Friday morning after being suspended on Wednesday and Thursday. City schools are also expected to reopen after classes were canceled Thursday.
But in Philadelphia, students saw another day of rest as school authorities explained that the bad weather caused the school to close again.
The major snowstorm Wednesday bombed most of the Northeast, grounded flights, closed public buildings and airports before falling Thursday.
It extended from the southern Appalachians on the coast of Massachusetts, the latest in a series of frosts that continues to blanket much of the region.
The storm caused serious problems in some regions, and made a record amount of snowfall across the region, according to the National Weather Service.
In New York, Central Park, 19 inches of snow fell overnight to Thursday, surpassing the record set in a single day in 1925, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Forecasters said the Newark, New Jersey, has 19 inches of snow, but Philadelphia had 15 inches.
Hundreds of flights were canceled as airports tried to manage the onslaught of snow.
In New York, people have tried many ways to keep warm during the storm. Subway passengers who are trapped in Coney Island has refused to get off a train on Thursday because they had no way to keep warm, brokers said.
The passengers remained in a "sweeper" train, which had followed clear and make sure none of the passengers or train was stuck between stations, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Transportation Authority staff tried to get them out of the train to Coney Island N terminal, a passenger said.
"I said, I have nowhere to go, I do not leave," said passenger Eva Mahony NY1 CNN affiliate. "There is no way I'm going to go home, because I remember ( December) blizzard. "
Most passengers were sleeping or just waited for several hours until they can catch a train at 6 am "he said.
The drama began when pilots left Manhattan for Brooklyn, NY1 reported. They were told to descend and take the train to Coney Island. When they arrived, there was no bus service and decided to stay in the sweep train.