European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. February 13, 1994 state of the states Winter s rage the stars and stripes Page 5 a glance at weather conditions Friday Alabama More than 5 inches of rain in Northern Alabama. More than 50,000 customer lost Power. Arkansas More than an Inch of freezing rain and sleet in Southern Arkansas. About 90.000 customers lost Power. Connecticut More than 9 inches of Snow in parts of Southern Connecticut. Schools cancelled. Many businesses shut Down Earty. Scores of flights cancelled at Bradley International Airport out Side Hartford. Delaware nearly half a foot of Snow in Kent and new Castle counties. Up to 25,000 customers lost Power. State government shut Down. Schools closed statewide. Washington . Three inches of sleet Snow at Dulles and National airports. Nonessential Federal employees Given the Day off. Georgia More than 6,500 people lost Power. Maryland up to 7 inches of Snow in Baltimore area. All Federal state and county offices closed. All Public schools dosed. More than 12.000 people los Power. Massachusetts about 8 inches of Snow in Boston. All nonessential state employees ordered Home Midas Lemoon downtown Boston businesses and cry Hall ordered to close Earty. New Jersey More than 1 8 inches of Snow in Newark. One weather related death an Auto fatality most schools around the state closed including Rutgers the state University. Delays on commuter trains and buses. Newark International Airport dosed. New York a foot of Snow in new York City. The Stock and commodity exchanges Kennedy International Airport the statue of Liberty and Eliis Island closed Earty. North Carolina More than an Inch of rain and sleet. Businesses and schools closed. Sporadic Power outages. North Dakota up to 2 inches of Snow in Bismarck Ohio up to 2 inches of ice in Southern Ohio. Up to 2,000 customers lost Power. Pennsylvania a foot of Snow in suburban pin to Dipna. Major delays on Phi Ade Pha s bus and rail  related bans. Rhode Island up to foot of Sod. One weather related of sex a Rug Hwy Accio ent state courts Essec. South Carolina Ai East 80,000 customers lost Power in Sorrem Ani Western counties. Utah =u-t5 Reee i 2 to 3 feet of Snow 7 to 9 trares o Sno in sat Lake City Virginia Cir 2 res of Sid Aid ice. Wore rat �2 add of West Virginia w c i 3 n res Oce a Motte areas. Car a. S5 Dos a duties Cstro eve g 3i. Gasto  on declared s. A y be air a 23 court is. A � e be b a of  Nomes acre Sec cres re add i go in a i a Sec " xxx ssh a % x " v v i a.   sri \ of. �. Of � a a \ v so a Road sign sends out a message As two motorists face their own delay after their car became stuck in Snow Friday near Chester Penn. East South get no Relief from Snow freezing rein by the associated press blinding blasts of Snow. Pelting Freez ing rain. Treacherous ice she lacked roads. Overflowing Rivers. Even an Earth quake. What s next a plague of locusts an already brutal Winter dumped a cruel assortment of catastrophes on the East and South on Friday. The slight temblor in East Tennessee late Friday was an unwelcome Bonus. Buddy it was like a Tornado went through Here said Johnny Burkhart of East Bernstadt ky., where an ice storm knocked out Power to at least 190,000 people. We be got Trees Down All Over the  across the Region Friday More than half a million people lost electricity most in the South where ice Laden tree limbs snapped like twigs taking Power lines Down with them. Hundreds of thousands remained without Power saturday. Farther North record Snow that fell at a rate of up to 2 inches an hour paralysed cities from West Virginia to Connecticut that had barely dug out from a Snow blast tuesday. Freezing rain was forecast for the East on saturday and More Snow was expected today. Wall Street and the Federal govern ment shut Down Friday and hundreds of schools and businesses closed. Travellers from the Highway to the runway were Sty Mie j. A concorde flight from London made it Only As far As Bangor Maine. Passengers had to Fly to Boston and take the Irivin from there to new York. In new York 12.8 inches of Snow fell a a youth bundled up against the elements in Little Rock ark., runs past a sign at a restaurant advertising Cool air. In Central Park. In Newark . A re Cord 18 inches of Snow fell. New yorkers from fifth Avenue to Brooklyn found Cross country skiing the easiest Way to get around. Skiing was safer than highways. Hundreds of wrecks and several deaths were reported on Snow and ice covered roads from the Carolinas to Maine. Rising temperatures and rain in the South began to thaw ice and Snow bring ing a new danger flooding. In Excelsior w.va., rain and melting Snow forced More than 40 people from their Homes. In Middlesboro f at least 30 families were evacuated As yellow Creek overflowed its Banks. Several families were evacuated along the Emory River in Roane county Tenn. Near Bristol Tenn., a minor Earth a Man crosses Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol in Washington on Friday Fol lowing a night of sleet and freezing rain. Quake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale struck late Friday night said Danny Pitchford of the Tennessee emergency management Agency. There were no re ports of damage. The series of storms which have taken their toll on the Hearty could almost Dis appoint sweethearts. Ltd florists Friday urged the mayors of Washington Baltimore Philadelphia new York and Boston to declare next week Valentine s week because Many Flower orders have been delayed by the storm. We Don t want to create any in needed quarrels about forgetting Valen Tine s Day on monday said Mark Knox president of the Southfield  florists Tran world delivery association