{"id":67035,"date":"2026-02-23T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/millions-face-road-travel-bans-as-snow-blankets-new-york-and-north-east-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:55:11","slug":"millions-face-road-travel-bans-as-snow-blankets-new-york-and-north-east-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/millions-face-road-travel-bans-as-snow-blankets-new-york-and-north-east-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions face road travel bans as snow blankets New York and north-east US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard warnings issued as some areas receive over a foot of snow, creating whiteout conditions<\/p>\n<p>Millions of people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York City<\/a> and a large swath of the north-eastern US were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings on Monday as heavy snow and strong winds intensified, creating whiteout conditions in the densely populated region.<\/p>\n<p>Snow fell at a rate of 2-3in (5-7.6cm) an hour early on Monday from New York through Massachusetts. Some areas have received well over a foot (30cm) of snow since Sunday, along with wind gusts of over 30mph (48km\/h) and low visibility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/snow-blizzard-new-york-boston\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard warnings issued as some areas receive over a foot of snow, creating whiteout conditions Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the north-eastern US were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings on Monday as heavy snow and strong winds intensified, creating whiteout conditions in the &#8230; <a title=\"Millions face road travel bans as snow blankets New York and north-east US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/millions-face-road-travel-bans-as-snow-blankets-new-york-and-north-east-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Millions face road travel bans as snow blankets New York and north-east US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}