total. this fire hydrant is a pretty good picture of just how much snow we re talking about. yesterday afternoon, when it all started coming down, probably around noon, our 911 center had 283 calls reporting departmentss ju accidents just in five hours. that breaks down to nearly 50 ske accidents an hour. any which way you go, you ll see a lot of stranded cars. city crews had their plows out. they have hit probably about 70% of the major roads. hopefully i just heard from the city official they re hoping to get some neighborhood roads later on tonight. now, as for the neighborhood roads, hopefully later on tonight. tomorrow will be day three. kids will be out of school. they re loving it. as for theed a actu adults, one started shoveling his driveway. i asked him are you sick of this. he wasn t even halfway done.
temperatures. and the wind, the city has 3 inches of snow. the wind is likely to blow all over the place making the driving eastern worse. it s the ice and visibility. blowing snow, making travel all possible. 9 inches of snow. some parts of kansas got more than a foot. kansas city warning residents to stay home. that city pounded with up to 10 inches of snow. look at all the stranded cars there. a lot of unhappy drivers. it s also leading ing ting t i, anybody witness helpfulness is encouraged to tweet #kchelps. chad myers is out in the snow here in new york city with what you need to know about the snow. good morning, chad. good morning. about two hours ago it was all snow. light, fluffy snow band snow.
welcome back to reliable sources. i m brian stelter. the ice and snow nightmare that turned atlanta into a third world city temporarily this week oh, my goodness, incredible traffic jams of 16 hours or more, children stranded at school for days, babies born on the highway, miles of abandoned cars, all of it turning normally koordsal atlantans bitter and angry. people turned on their leaders and demanded to know how did this happen? since i m a media reporter this is my beat. for me it boils down a single question, in a crisis what responsibility do elected officials have to speak to journalists? what responsibility do they have to answer the questions that in this case a furious city was shouting from their well, stranded cars and rooftops. at first the mayor did appear on cnn and the governor held a press conference but they didn t really take responsibility. and the rage of the city grew. cnn s carol costello interviewed mayor kasim reed the morning after the storm when all hell wa
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snowing. as for the cars, stranded cars all around suffolk county. suffolk police, the police department out here telling us that there are literally still stuck in the snow. as far as the l.i.e. is concerned, the estimate is about 60 to 100 cars stuck there. big area of trouble is behind two tractor-trailers that jackknifed around midnight. all the cars behind them got stuck, because of the problem with the tractor-trailers and at last word, police and rescue crews trying to get those cars out from behind the tractor-trailer. so a lot of work to do, we ve been told that no one has been immune to getting stuck in the snowdrifts, we ve heard of buses of even plows getting stuck here, one guy told me the snowdrifts in some areas in port jefferson are shoulder length. as far as travel nightmare stories, we ve heard a few of them. one of our photographers, it took him five hours to go 18