Dozens of stranded travelers spent the night on travel cots in Newark Airport on Thursday and weary drivers fell asleep in their cars, only to be woken up by state troopers on Friday after 12 hours of gridlock traffic, as a result of the first deadly Nor'Easter of the season.
The storm swept the East Coast on Thursday afternoon and evening, dumping up to six inches of snow across New York City, downing trees and causing commuter chaos.
In addition to the local headaches of subway delays and closures, there was flight mayhem with more than 1,000 cancelled in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and Boston.
Eight people have died as a result of weather-related road accidents. They include three people killed in separate accidents in Ohio, Indiana and Maryland, two people who died in a tour bus accident in Mississippi and another three people who died in two separate incidents in Arkansas.
In Philadelphia, state troopers were forced to wake sleeping drivers who had fallen asleep while in standstill traffic on a 30-mile stretch of the I-78.
'Drivers, wake up! Traffic's moving!' they yelled from their vehicles while honking their horns to wake the motorists.
In West Orange, New Jersey, students were forced to spend the night sleeping on gym hall mats and eating food from their cafeteria. Teachers kept them entertained with movies.
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Dozens of people spend the night in Newark Airport on Thursday after being grounded by Winter Storm Avery, the first Nor'Easter of the season
People slept on the floor, surrounded by their bags, with nowhere to go because the roads to and from the airport were impassable and gridlocked and the hotels nearby were full
There are still delays out of the major East Coast airports but fewer flights will be canceled on Friday.
There have already been 46 flights canceled out of Newark, 37 canceled out of Boston, 36 out of LaGuardia and 13 out of Philadelphia.
In addition to people who never got on their flights, others were delayed on the tarmac for up to eight hours waiting for their plane to 'deice'.
Some put their children to sleep in the rows. Traffic en route to the airport was also abysmal. Some people got out and started walking along the icy roads after being halted in cabs and taxis for six hours.
'Hi from the floor of Newark airport, where we’ll prob spend the night bc of Winter Storm Avery. It took 3.5 hrs via NYC public transportation to get here, and we’ve been waiting on this flight for 4 hours.
'Highways are gridlock so we’re basically trapped,' tweeted one woman as she shared a photograph of herself with her son on the floor.
People abandoned vehicles and got out of the back of taxis on their way to Newark on Thursday to walk the remainder of the journey after being stuck for up to six hours in traffic
There were people at JFK (left) who were also forced to spend the night. Right, a woman cradles her baby on the floor at Newark
At Liberty Middle School in West Orange, it was not safe enough for parents to collect their children so they spent the night with teachers sleeping on gym mats and watching movies
The children raided the cafeteria for food and seemed excited by the unexpected mass sleepover rather than worried
In New York City, the wet snowfall and wind gusts downed numerous tree branches and police advised people to stay indoors and avoid the roads.
Commuters were also advised to avoid the Port Authority Bus Terminal - which is also used by some to travel to New Jersey - due to extreme overcrowding.
By 5:30 p.m., the terminal had become an immovable block of wall-to-wall commuters all gazing up at the schedule board. Lines of people waited to get into the terminal as officials urged them to take trains or ferries.
Shocking photos from inside the station show hundreds of commuters sporting their winter jackets and hats as they are crammed in. The terminal was partially closed down and travelers were banned from entering the second and third level.
As a result of the storm, the city's students were left stranded on school buses late into Thursday night. Special-needs student George Jordan spent seven hours on a bus home to the Bronx, the New York Post reports.
The poor weather made it difficult for buses to reach the terminal, officials said. And a multi-vehicle accident on the George Washington Bridge and the closure of the Bayonne Bridge connecting Staten Island to New Jersey added to the traffic nightmare.
A mayoral spokesman said the early storm meant that Metropolitan Transportation Authority didn't have snow chains on its buses. He said many of them had to pull over, 'further clogging streets.'
Engineers deice a plane on the tarmac at Newark Airport on Thursday as snow and ice battered the East Coast
The Flight Aware Misery Map shows how many flights have been cancelled on Friday morning alone - 73 by 9am
Hundreds of commuters are seen packed inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal as they wait for buses which faced more than two-hour delays
Commuters were advised to avoid the Port Authority Bus Terminal due to overcrowding
A board shows cancelled flights due to a snow storm at the Newark Liberty International Airport on November 15, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey. The early season storm caused flight cancellations in much of the northeast
A World Trade Center bound PATH train is covered in snow as it sits in Newark Penn Station on November 15, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey
Students and teachers at New Jersey middle school spent the night watching Frozen and eating ice cream after Nor'Easter made it too dangerous for their parents to pick them up
Staff and students at Liberty Middle School in West Orange, NJ, were forced to spend the night on campus thanks to the winter storm. The children watched movies, were fed snacks and dinner, played basketball tournaments and games before rising, having breakfast and being collected
When the conditions became too dangerous for parents to pick up their children on Thursday from Liberty Middle in West Orange, teachers were faced with a daunting prospect: they suddenly had to babysit hundreds of school kids overnight.
To keep them occupied, they played movies in the auditorium and took groups to the gymnasium for basketball.
While some of the kids tried to sleep, others fought it and kept the staff up all night.
Rather than begrudge the grave set of circumstances, the school embraced it cheerfully.
The principal posted regular updates on Twitter with photographs of the children and his staff until the final children were collected on Friday morning.
'WOW... What a nor'easter... students at Liberty are fine, watching a movie with a snack and a drink being provided (sorry Sodexo, I raided the cafeteria)... stay safe all!' he wrote at 4.20pm.
Sodexo is a school food supplies company whose own staff normally man the cafeteria but who were sent home when the storm hit.
Dinner was served at 6pm.
The kids ate pizza, chicken nuggets or sandwiches then went to the gymnasium for a 'very late PE class' of basketball matches.
Dinner: Pizza, sandwiches and chicken nuggets were served at around 6pm for the kids
Then it was back to the auditorium to watch Frozen which teachers joked was an appropriate choice given the weather.
After Frozen, some students played hangman and Pictionary through the night while others watched their fifth movie.
By then, parents who could get to the school came to pick up their kids but some were still stranded.
The teachers took turns having coffee breaks to keep themselves up.
Eventually, morning hit and they made a breakfast of french toast before the final students were collected.
At 8.30am, there were only six left that had to be collected.
The principal issued a final tweet saying: 'Huge shoutout to Liberty Staff for a job extremely well done.'
The school was closed on Friday.
After basketball they watched Frozen, an apt movie considering the weather outside
The staff made french toast for the children at 5.30am
In New Jersey, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tweeted that it took him five hours and 40 minutes to commute from Piscataway to Mendham, a roughly 26-mile journey that normally takes about 40 minutes.
There were scattered delays on the Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit reported 30-minute delays system wide. Flight delays of up to an hour were reported at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports.
Forecasters said the snow should turn to mostly sleet and rain before changing to rain overnight.
As much as eight inches of snow blanketed the St. Louis area, and forecasters predicted up to six inches in parts of southern New England as the storm made its way east.
Pedestrians walk through snow and ice in Manhattan on November 15, 2018 in New York
A bicycle covered in snow is seen in Manhattan on November 15, 2018 in New York
A tree collapsed on top of a parked car in Manhattan on November 15, 2018 in New York
Ileina Weber shovels snow in front of her house in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania on Thursday
Southbound traffic stopped on Route 9D in Wappingers Falls. The heavy snowfall created slippery conditions that stranded many motorists
A plow clears a parking lot at the Hudson Valley Towne Center parking lot in Fishkill
They also predicted northern New Jersey could see four to eight inches of snow before the system exits the region early Friday, while parts of suburban Philadelphia had five inches of snow by Thursday afternoon.
Weather officials said the overnight trace in Alabama missed setting a record for earliest snow by about two weeks.
In neighboring Mississippi, a tour bus bound for a casino overturned, killing two people and injuring 44 others Wednesday afternoon.
The crash happened about 35 miles southeast of downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Betty Russell, 70, and Cynthia Hardin, 61, both of Huntsville, Alabama, died, said DeSoto County Coroner Joshua Pounders.
A street is covered with snow during the first snowfall of the season on a local street in Guttenberg in Union City, New Jersey
Pedestrians walk through snow and ice in New York after the city saw its first snowfall which shut down buses in the city
Snow piles up on bicycles outside the transit terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, after a snowstorm on Thursday
A food cart vendor waits inside his hot dog stand for his his tow car as the first snowfall of the season blankets New York City
A bicycle sits chained to street post covered in the first snowfall of the season to blanket New York City on Thursday
The injured were taken to Memphis-area hospitals, with at least three listed in serious condition Wednesday evening.
Officials said the group was traveling from Huntsville, Alabama, to gamble at a casino in Mississippi's Tunica County, about 40 miles to the west.
Witnesses told Mississippi investigators the tour bus driver lost control after crossing an icy overpass and the bus rolled over on its driver's side, coming to rest in median of Interstate 269 in Byhalia around 12.35pm, said Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Capt. Johnny Poulos.
'All of a sudden the bus started swerving then it spun around two times, hit the rail and then flipped over,' bus passenger Veronica Love told news outlets as she left a hospital after the wreck. 'The second spin, it started picking up speed. It was, I mean, what could you do?'
Witnesses said the driver lost control after crossing an icy overpass and the bus rolled over on its driver's side, coming to rest in an interstate median, Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Capt. Johnny Poulos said. The crash happened about 35 miles southeast of downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
'All of a sudden the bus started swerving then it spun around two times, hit the rail and then flipped over,' bus passenger Veronica Love told news outlets as she left a hospital after the wreck. 'The second spin, it started picking up speed. It was, I mean, what could you do?'
Later Wednesday night, near Little Rock, Arkansas, three people were killed in separate crashes on icy roads. The interstate was closed and reopened shortly before daybreak Thursday, but officials said traffic was slow-going because some drivers had fallen asleep.
Officials in Ohio reported at least one traffic death that was likely weather-related. Indiana State Police also reported a death early Thursday, which they said was caused by the 60-year-old woman driving too fast on a slick road.
A police officer and others help push a car that was unable to gain traction on the snowy roads in Mt. Holly on Thursday. New Jerseyans are dealing with their first taste of wintry weather this season
In Philadelphia, a meteorologist told the Allentown Morning Call that this storm is 'an overperformer.' By 3 p.m. Thursday, parts of suburban Philadelphia had five inches of snow.
The freezing rain turned to ice on roads around the state, leading to a number of crashes and reports of cars sliding off roads.
In North Carolina, the National Park Service closed a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway to traffic Thursday because of dangerous road conditions stemming from snow, sleet and freezing rain, the Asheville Citizen Times reported.
Schools closed or sent students home early across the lower Great Lakes and the Northeast, including at the University of Connecticut where classes were canceled in the afternoon.
Nearly half a million people across the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast were left without power after the storm struck last night.
The storm was forecast to dump as much as six inches on parts of New England, while in the Midwest the St Louis area saw the highest accumulation with up to eight inches of snow on Thursday morning.
People walk across the Brooklyn Bridge as the first snowfall of the year hits New York City on Thursday
Visitors stand in a wet snowfall at the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan on Thursday
Pedestrians walk through a wintery mix of snow and ice in Manhattan on Thursday in New York City
The storm has already wreaked havoc on roads in the South, where icy roads led to fatal crashes in Mississippi and Arkansas on Wednesday night.
New Yorkers braced for commuter misery on the way home, as officials warned drivers to travel with extreme caution.
'Early winter weather is moving through the state this week and I urge New Yorkers to be prepared and to use caution when driving due to reduced visibility and possible black ice,' New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
'We are watching these weather systems and stand ready to assist our local partners as needed,' Cuomo said.
Airline chaos rippled across the country, with at least 464 flight cancellations and over 1,946 delays as of Thursday night, according to FlightAware.
A mix of snow and sleet changed to rain which continued there throughout the day.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley takes pictures at the White House in a light snow in Washington DC
Grounds of the White House are seen covered in snow in the photo taken by the administration's staff
A groundskeeper clears slush and snow during a winter storm on Capitol Hill, on Thursday in Washington DC
As the storm hit with Thanksgiving still a week away, school districts closed or sent students home early across the lower Great Lakes and the Northeast.
The University of Connecticut canceled classes starting at 3:30 p.m. or later at its main campus, satellite campuses and law school.
About a dozen school districts in New Jersey and others in Connecticut decided to send students home early.
Hundreds of schools in the central U.S. closed Thursday morning, with as much as eight inches blanketing the St Louis area by the early afternoon.
In Indianapolis, the National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning. The state's largest school district, Indianapolis Public Schools, closed classes citing 'dangerously slick road conditions.'
Forecasters were predicting up to six inches of snow in parts of southern New England, beginning in the mid-afternoon Thursday.
St Louis: Richard Burst clears snow from his driveway on Thursday. 'All I really need to accomplish are two lanes for my car,' he said. Much of the region had at least four inches of snow and forecasters expect about one inch or two inches more will fall
On Wednesday, this bus carrying passengers to a casino overturned on an icy road in DeSoto County, Mississippi
A tour bus sits on a highway after it crashed in northern Mississippi, killing at least two people and injuring dozens
Pennsylvania: A young buck forages for food during a snow storm on Thursday in Marple Township. Pennsylvanians are dealing with their first taste of wintry weather this season. A mix of rain, sleet and snow had started falling across some areas
Snow fell as far southeast as central Alabama, which got a dusting.
While wintry precipitation is unusual in the Deep South so early in the season, forecasters said the overnight trace missed setting a record for earliest snow by about two weeks.
Around the upper South, meanwhile, the storm spread scattered sleet and light snow on Wednesday.
By Thursday, the snow hit as far west as St Louis, where much of the region had at least four inches of snow and forecasters expected about one inch or two inches more to fall.
And in Virginia, NASA said, the planned launch early Thursday of an unmanned cargo rocket to the International Space Station had to be rescheduled by one day because of the weather.
The unmanned Cygnus cargo craft is now scheduled to lift off early Friday from Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore carrying supplies and research materials for the astronauts at the space station.
Indiana: Icicles hang on street signs near Donner Park in Columbus, Indiana on Thursday
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