{"id":80744,"date":"2026-02-24T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80744"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:56","slug":"northeast-digs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/northeast-digs-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Digs Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Neighbors, government workers and a powerful railroad snow-clearing machine nicknamed \u201cDarth Vader\u201d scrambled to dig out much of the northeastern United States from a brutal and \u2014 in some areas \u2014\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/photo-gallery\/snowstorm-snow-cold-winter-726d2574c843811aafe5fcbe65d82eab\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">record-breaking storm<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that blanketed the region with snow and resulted in\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-storm-flight-cancellations-us-travel-54feed6ca0fb8e05c3b59326bd7ff24c\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">thousands of flight cancellations<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0But as the snow moved northward and tapered off in other areas Tuesday, forecasters warned that another storm could be right around the corner. <em>[scroll for more:]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- spiritdaily.org --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6350947343102800\" data-ad-slot=\"9237292177\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s storm that meteorologists are calling\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/snow-weather-noreaster-snowfall-records-blizzard-northeast-aff4424880506264d7828b39faaee008\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the strongest in a decade<\/a><\/span>\u00a0dumped more than 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow in parts of the Northeast. More than 3 feet (91 centimeters) fell in Rhode Island \u2014 surpassing snow totals from the historic Blizzard of 1978 that struck the Northeast, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1771918136\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Northeast Digs Out\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Neighbors, government workers and a powerful railroad snow-clearing machine nicknamed \u201cDarth Vader\u201d scrambled to dig out much of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}