If you’ve been watching the news the last few days, you’d know our region was bracing for what could be an “historic” storm. But can anything really be historic when we’ve seen so many similar events over the past few years?
In fact, it seems our region’s recent history with big snowstorms and hurricanes has steeled us for what this blizzard promised: high winds, blowing snow, and accumulations of more than two feet.
Airports, trains, buses, and many roads are still closed, and officials are urging people to stay off the streets.
The worst of the storm is over in western Connecticut, and Governor Dannel Malloy has lifted a travel ban for Fairfield and Litchfield counties. But snow is still falling very hard in central and eastern Connecticut.
This hour, we get the latest on Blizzard 2015. We go around the state and region, and find out what’s still expected from the weather system.
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Michael from Middletown called into our show with a blizzard-inspired poem he wrote hours earlier:
GUESTS:
- Dannel Malloy - Democratic Governor of Connecticut
- Ryan Hanrahan - NBC Connecticut meteorologist
- Harriet Jones - WNPR's business editor and reporter
- Diane Orson - WNPR's managing editor, Morning Edition host and education reporter
- David DesRoches - WNPR's education reporter
- Susan Campbell - Consultant at Partnership for Strong Communities; Board of CT Coalition to End Homelessness
- Alex Ashlock - Producer & reporter for NPR's Here and Now
- Mark Boughton - Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut
- Frank Poirot - Spokesman for CL&P
- Patrick Skahill - Science and environment reporter for WNPR and TheBeaker.org
- Jeff Cohen - WNPR's capital region reporter
Lydia Brown, Tucker Ives, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
