Winter storm wallops Northeast, but some schools bury snow days Hits: 646 NEW YORK--A winter storm marched up the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, delivering a disruptive blow to transportation systems and a welcome day off for some school kids, but not for many who have been learning remotely during the pandemic. By midafternoon, the Nor'easter had brought a wintry mix to Washington and wind-whipped snow to New York City, parts of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as it threatened a swath of the country that is home to more than 50 million people. The sprawling system could dump up to 2 feet (60 cm) of snow in an area stretching from eastern Pennsylvania to New York's Catskill Mountains, with lesser amounts of a foot (30 cm) or more in the rest of the Northeast, forecasters said. Parts of Virginia and North Carolina will be blanketed with a thin later of ice while areas in the Mid-Atlantic region closer to the coast will get only rain before the storm moves out to sea from Boston late on Thursday, they said.