Weve got team coverage. Dave kinchen is in allentown. Dawn timmeney is down the shore and Shawnette Wilson is in south injuries z first, though, lets get on over to meteorologist kathy orr. Whew, what a morning seeing a few lingering snow showers one band moving into new york and new jersey the other one in land cost tune tee that will be moving through our suburbs but this is just some light snow showers and fleur reece. Reduced visibility in some spots. Allentown down to three quarters of a mile. You can see in lancaster one an quarter miles so to our north and west, some of our visibilities will recent dude as the snow showers move through but there are just on the back side of the storm as it continues to move off the coast of long island. Some of the impressive snow totals the poconos 24inches. Thats where the most fell and thats what we expected. Nass nazareth 12. 5. Allen up to 12. 3. Royersford in Montgomery County 7. 5inches of snow. Philadelphia international 6inches of snow and little bit of sleeting to as well. Temperatures right now only 19 in the poconos. Its 34 in philadelphia. 36 in millville. You can tell our storm is pulling away because on the back side of this, we have a northwesterly wind and those winds will continue to gust right now still gusting to 37 in philadelphia. 39 in wilmington. Gusting to 37 miles an hour in lancaster. Creating wind chills in the 20s and those will go down into the teens late tonight. So a few more snow showers passing through nothing accumulating. Winds gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour with wind chills in the teens late tonight and icy concerns as all of that slush freezes as temperatures fall into the teens and 20s over night tonight. Well talk more about that and our next chance of snow in the seven day forecast. Winter is not over yet, guys. I know kathy. Kathy mentioned Lehigh Valley saw some of the highest snow totals this morning. You can see the remnants on the ground allentown. Right now our cameras caught the snow as it came down in allentown. Storm moved out total snow there a foot. If youre heading out driving conditions seem to be improving in allentown with a major roads cleared out but the danger of course is when the temperatures starts to drop. Lets get out to fox 29s dave kinchen life in allentown with meront conditions there. Dave . Reporter iain, the big concern certainly is freezing but right now as we a look at the roadways here, they are quite clear and weve seen a dramatic improvement in the roads over the last few hours. But really we found people spe spending this snow day all sorts of ways. Alex pina at the man of hour with shovel in hand. Showing up just in time to dig out a friend left spinning their wheels. As soon as the crazy back there. Reporter fox 29 cameras were rolling he is a went to work with seems like this all too common throughout the allentown area cars that cant move, one even driving on a busted tire and people spending the snow day doing the grunt work even if its for a payche paycheck. My pastor over the weekend said, today will be a great day for day of rest. He was highly mistaken. Here we are. Weve been going constantly hitting places probably six or seven times now. Reporter then there are those using the winter blast for fun on four wheels. Still parts of allentown are like a snowy ghost town with businesses closed and knot nonessential driving kept to minimum at the be heft of state officials. Usually this is a normally busy area. Now its practically zero. You can tell. Reporter several actually decided to hoof it many in make shift snow shoes to get a few errands done. See if i can get a little bit of provisions and walk back home. Reporter meanwhile back with alex and the crew [ applause ] his friends car is finally free. Pretty heavy snow. Yeah, yeah, you got that right for sure. Reporter well back life you can see a whole row of businesses here including the starbucks closed up for the day. The Allentown School addition tribute also had closures today. No school today. So a lot of people having fun but also as you saw there a lot of people doing some work making some money on this snow day. Back to you. All right, dave, thanks. Philadelphia city workers did not get a day off but they did get to sleep in an hour later. Employees were called in to work on an hour delay. You can see workers bracing the conditions as they head to do city hall around 10 00 this morning. Some guys shoveling around the building had been out since 11 30 last night. The weather made for rough driving conditions and impacted Public Transportation as well. You can take look at this video our crews shot. You can see a septa bus stuck at 13th and spruce. Heres a live look at center city. A number of septa bus routes are still suspended right now. Most Regional Rail lines are operating on a saturday schedule and all trolley lines are ru running but you got to expect delays. Down the jersey shore its not flood snow but flooding and beach erosion thats stirring up all the trouble. High surf combined with high tides slamming waves into roads. This street in margate looking a little bit like a small pond this morning. In Atlantic City firefighters tweeted out that theyve been making high water rescues as people tried to drive through all of that standing water. Never a good idea. Fox 29s dawn timmeney joining us from longport where the winds blowing hard still. Dawn. Reporter the winds are definitely blowing, lucy. Today people were stranded in their cars. They had to be rescued. They couldnt get out of the their homes. The waters had since receded but i can tell you it was not a fun day at the beach for most. This is little above normal but this area gets water. Reporter brian scott of Atlantic City makes his way through the flooded streets with scott checking on family after this march storm left some areas with water right up to their doors. Had to walk through some water about halfway up to my knee earlier. Not too bad. My sisterinlaw in house with her kids could be again oat out this. Reporter they live here on california avenue and were stranded because of the high waters. So was scott haines hes lived here since 1988. And well hes used to the flooding. It came up to the bottom of the top of our bottom step. So, you know, quite a bit of water here. It was a lot worse during sandy. We were hoping it didnt get to that point. Reporter haines says the water came up fast and furious. The wind is keeping the back bays full so were hoping the next tide its down so its not as flooded as it was this morning. Reporter it was pretty much the same scene in margate. There were plenty of flooded streets and cars underwater. Some drivers were luckier than others as they tried to navigate through the streets turned into rivers. I didnt realize how bad the street was until i was halfway through and i was unable to back up. Car just sung into the water and its been there for about five hours. At one point there was about two and a half feet of water inside the car. Reporter frank, finally got his car towed just before 4 00 oclock. While the flooding was a huge inconvenience for some, it was a day off from school for these kids enjoying some time on the beach. We came down to see the waves and play around. Reporter i have to till the big concern is high tide and the winds are really kicking up. High tide is at 9 50 tonight. So there is that worry about flooding. Were seeing wind gusts lucy of up to 40 Miles Per Hour i feel like im actually going to blow away. Thats the latest from longport. Back to you in the studio. My goodness, dawn. Shouldnt be laughing but she did look like that. Depending how hard your part area of the got hit this could be familiar site. Icy storm knocked down a tree just off route 38 in maple shade, new jersey. You can see part of the branches stuck there on wires on west mill road. South jersey residents have been rocked by power outages. In fact hundreds of people are still in the dark. Downed trees on wires blackout originally thousands of folks. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joining us from cherry hill. Shawnette. Reporter lucy and iain, we just learned within the past 30 minutes about a live wire down. Were told it had fire coming from them on west overdrive here in cherry hill. Pse g rushed to that and they expect to be busy trying to restore power through out the night. Weve been out for almost an hour. Jim rider is out cleaning off his car but not because he has somewhere to go. I have sleep apnea. I was trying to take a nap mine power went out so i got up decided let me clean the car off. Reporter wind and heavy snow knocked out power in his neighborhood of beach nut and pioneer lane in willingboro this afternoon. I have a generator. I have a generator 3800amps i can use that if i need it and weve got plenty of food in the house and stuff, you know, and so were good. The only thing we wont have heat. Heat is important to christian who says he underestimated the storm. Its pretty bad. I thought it was going to be worse than what it was, but i mean definitely cold report roar christian says his power is out, too hell spend the day helping others shovel it. Started flickering on and off and i checked my phone it was charging any more. Willingboro police were respond to go all sorts of calls today. At Beverly Rancocas and jfk way they blocked off this intersection where several businesses closed today. And nearby a tree fell across the road. Rider had two trees down around his property but says hes fine. If thats the biggest problem the storm caused for him. Its been worse. Its been worse. Reporter those people we talked willingboro who were without power tell us that pse g says they plan to have power on in the next few hours but hopefully bite end of the night. Iain, back to you. Shawnette, thank you. Live look at wilmington right now. Remember you can always get live weather updates on the fox29. C fox29. Com. A woman says a masked man tried to kidnap her at a delaware apartment complex. The fifth attack in just weeks. Why investigators say that woman is now under arrest. Dramatic rescue caught on camera. The hero who called 911 when a car plunged into the water. It looks like fun especially in this weather. Why a pennsylvania family was forced to shut down their personal backyard hockey ring. Before we head off to break here for those who dared to venture out they will walked very car physical. Snowy scene bala cynwyd some snow drifts were up to your thighs. vo with thousands of quality preowned vehicles. And exceptional customer service, head t to your neiborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Flip your thinking about buying your next one. After hours of snow and sleet snow emergency in philadelphia has been lifted. As we take live look at the ben franklin parkway. Septa says buses are running right now most trains are runninrunning on saturday schedt there are some cancellations. So to find out if yours is on time head to our website at fox29. Com. You know snowstorm not only brought down power lines but roofs. West philadelphia here and you can see a porch roof crashed down at 58th and arf. Thank goodness no warts of reports of any injuries. Delaware county did not end up with as much know but that doesnt mean folks escaped unscathed. The slushy wintry mix made get aig round tricky for drivers who braced the slick streets. Fox 29s bruce gordon joins us from macdade boulevard in folsom where things look different now, bruce. Reporter yeah, in fact its actually been pretty good afternoon the sun has been peeking out of the clouds occasionally over the last half hour or so. There was brief and light snow flurry mid afternoon, but all in all things looking good. Macdade boulevard behind me here. Almost dry but no question about it, it was a messy morning. The snow totals in Delaware County failed to meet predictions but the sleet, there was plenty of that. It made for a messy drive for the few who ventured out by mid morning. It would have been better if it was all snow. Would have been plowed up a little bit better. This is slushy icy mess. Yeah, slippery and it just gets another coat of ice on top of it. I just go nice and slow put it in low gear and its bearable. Reporter plow trucks hit the streets well before dawn and did a pretty good job clearing major thoroughfares like macdade boulevard. Ice coated trees crackled in the face of a stiff wind and downed power lines left nearly 2800 delco peco customers without power for a time. For most of the morning it was best to simply hunker down indoors. We opted to just grab coffee and chocolate milling. There you go. That sounds like a pretty inviting day. Say bye. Byebye. Give us one more kiss. Throw below one more kiss. Blow one more kiss. There we go. Reporter shortly afternoo afternoon, the sleet beat feet and it was time for the big dig. Everywhere you looke looked shos were creeing under the weight of that heavy slush. Some viewed this blizzard as something of a bust. Its a piece of cake. The just people in detroit or chicago would laugh at all the dig fuss we make over this. People just need to, you know, get a grip, you know. Reporter as usual, the kids showed the most toughness taking to the nearest sledding hill on this raw day for a little thrill seeking. Is that good for shredding the icy conditions . Yes, because it makes you go faster and its funner. Reporter faster and funner. Umhmm. Reporter so tough morning for drivers especially but things looked like theyve cleared up at least to certain degree. Especially on the major roads. Kids have had fun as well. Fall all not so bad at least not as bad as it could have been lucy out here in delaware coun county. Isnt in truth. Bruce gordon thank you watch. Damagindamaging winds with gusts strong as 50 miles an hour in New Castle County. That big pine couldnt with stan the force in wilmington the trunk snapped toppled into a home at the mary manor trailer park on Second Avenue and crushed a couple of trucks. No one is hurt though. And this was just several of trees knock down in the neighbor. Storm causing problems up and down the northeast from mountains of North Carolina to northern maine heres a look at the conditions in new york right in the heart of times square. Just like here at home the main concern tonight are those falling temperatures and icy conditions. This guy playing golf thats a guy after my own heart. Foxs kayla joins us live from west chester, new york, with more on the conditions there. Kayla. Reporter good evening to you iain and lucy. Believe it or not this part of northern west chester is localing down. This is the wind here is actually a lot slower than it used to be. The snowfall in general we were joking earlier more like snowfall a lot nicer here take a lookout outside were right in the center of town. You can see a lot of people just staying indoors avoiding this weather at all costs. Schools were closed down so that made it easier for parents. Also got more than 60 snowplows on the road. You can see one coming bite rye now and this is the beginning weve been out here all day like i said. This is the beginning of the blacktop just starting to show through. Lets talk about road conditions. Driving conditions earlier was complete white out practically impossible to see one state Police Officer telling me just about onetenth of a mile ahead of you thats about as far as you could see a lot people getting stuck out there. Those people driving. In terms of the metro north the train lot of people commute in and out of west chester from that was completely shut down until 12 and it is expected to resume around 6 00 oclock so thats going to make few people that actually made it out over to manhattan coming back a little bit easier. But again its been viced all day. If you can just stay indoors and enjoy that hot chocolate and that hot coffee. For now in West Chester County kayla, ill sent it back to you. That is great hot cocoa weather going on right there. As we take live look at old city remember you can always get up to the minute conditions to from your fox 29 Weather Authority. Just right in the palm of your hand. You dont need to step outside and get cold. Download the fox 29 weather app and you can find it in the apple and google play stores. Happening now, the search for what caused a fire in center city. The severe frigid weather making the fire fight even more difficult for emergency crews. Flames broke out inside this abandoned building at 15th and chestnut at 5 15 this morning. Firefighters managed to put them out in less than an hour. Newark, delawae, turns out a reported kidnapping last night was a hoax. Police say this woman 23yearold brenda aiden told police an armed man came up to her from the christina mill apartment complex forc forced nr her apartment and robbed her. Well, today Police Arrested and charged her after they say detectives realized her story was inconsistent. This rescue caught on came camera. The hero who called 911 when that car plunged into the water. A possible treatment for allergies. Why some people are now turning to salt for a little relief. First though the fun side of todays storm. Children and parents alike taking advantage of the day off for some sledding around kelly drive. Do you love sledding . I used to, yeah. Back in the day. And fine out if your childs schools are delayed or closed head to our fox29. Com website. Why are you deleting these photos . Because my teeth are yellow. Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Use together for 2 times stronger enamel. Crest 3d white. Welcome back. Weve been talking about snow accumulation across the region. Take look at these numbers. In the poconos 2 feet of snow. Bethlehem 13. 7. Malvern 7inches. Mt. Holly, new jersey, five hokesson delaware 4. 2inches of snow. Youve been showing us how the storm impacted you today. Monica is checking out pictures you sent in. Fox29snow. And heres what we received. We have absolutely loved it. You can see the sun is actually shining in some areas. Causing the snow to melt even though those temperatures are pretty cold out there. And i love these pictures of dogs especially the ones that try and stay indoors as much as possible. And this is from kim holden. Look alt this dog this is a husky they live for this stuff. They love the snow. We got a lot of dog dog pictur pictures. Burmese mountain dog, a husky as well. We want to see your pictures from the snow hash tag it fox 29 snow and follow us on twitter. Fox 29 philly. Back to you. Than