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Remembering Winter Storm Jonas
Consult your emergency management plan when facing an impending storm, and update this plan with lessons learned after each storm to avoid grappling with problems that may already have solutions. This is just one of the lessons reinforced for hospitals that were impacted by Winter Storm Jonas (aka “Snowzilla”) back in January 2016.
It’s been a few years since Jonas smothered the East Coast, so here are a few facts to refresh your memory:
- 14 states received over a foot of snow. Seven of them saw over 30 inches of snowfall, including places like New York’s JFK airport and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
- West Virginia received 42 inches of snow.
- At the time, Jonas was the biggest single snowstorm on record for at least six locations.
- 11 states declared a state of emergency, and 13,000 flights were canceled.
- More than 80 million people were affected by Jonas, with at least 55 deaths attributed to it.
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