{"id":67163,"date":"2026-02-24T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/north-east-us-digs-out-after-massive-blizzard-blankets-the-region\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:58:59","slug":"north-east-us-digs-out-after-massive-blizzard-blankets-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/north-east-us-digs-out-after-massive-blizzard-blankets-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"North-east US digs out after massive blizzard blankets the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands are still without power as businesses and schools slowly come back online<\/p>\n<p>Cities across the north-east US are digging out from the snow after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/snow-blizzard-new-york-boston\">Monday\u2019s blizzard<\/a>, which halted travel across the region and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists said that the storm was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/snow-weather-noreaster-snowfall-records-blizzard-northeast-aff4424880506264d7828b39faaee008\">the strongest in a decade<\/a>, dumping more than 2ft (61cm) of snow in parts of the region. More than 3ft (91cm) fell in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/rhode-island\">Rhode Island<\/a> \u2013 surpassing snow totals from the north-east\u2019s historic blizzard of 1978.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/north-east-digs-out-snow-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands are still without power as businesses and schools slowly come back online Cities across the north-east US are digging out from the snow after Monday\u2019s blizzard, which halted travel across the region and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages. Meteorologists said that the storm was the strongest in a decade, dumping &#8230; <a title=\"North-east US digs out after massive blizzard blankets the region\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/north-east-us-digs-out-after-massive-blizzard-blankets-the-region\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about North-east US digs out after massive blizzard blankets the region\">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-67163","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\/67163","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=67163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}