Garrett County, Md.
A blizzard paralyzed the East Coast this week, shutting down airports, commuter trains, and highways with as much as four feet of snow. Washington, D.C., was paralyzed with two feet, and in Garrett County, Md., 49 inches piled up in one day. “It’s no man’s land out there,” one official said. “It looks more like Siberia than Maryland.” The weather was blamed for 35 deaths. The storm, which hit on President’s Day, was the worst blizzard to strike the eastern U.S. in seven years.
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