US Storm Falls Short of Severe Predictions, Yet Affects Millions

Tens of millions of people along the U.S. East Coast stayed home from work and school, had flights canceled and were told to stay off roads for a snowstorm that, for most, failed to live up to predictions that it would be one of the worst they had ever seen. However, with memories still fresh of Sandy, a superstorm that ravaged the region in 2012, governors of at least eight East Coast states declared emergencies. The storm’s size means that up to 60 million people in nearly a dozen...

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