Schools and airlines catch up as snowstorm dies out

SOME schools stayed closed yesterday and airlines struggled to catch up as the US north-east plowed out after the powerful weekend snowstorm that piled snow nearly four feet deep in places.

“It’s not unique but it is unusual that we would have a December snowstorm that would yield this amount of snow,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Charlie Foley.

Thirteen deaths were linked to the storm.