New York: Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded for up to 10 hours on the tarmac at John F Kennedy Airport in New York on Tuesday, as ambulances struggled to get patients through unploughed streets and city buses sat abandoned in the snow.
Officials warned it could take until the New Year to rebook all passengers and straighten out the transport mess created by the bad weather, which shut down all three of New York's major airports for 24 hours and caused a ripple effect across the United States.
The storm, which dumped 20 inches (50.8 centimetres) of snow on Central Park and ground the city's airports to a standstill, was New York City's sixth-worst since record-keeping began in 1869, according to a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
A 2006 storm dropped 26.9 inches (68.3 centimetres) of snow on Central Park, breaking the previous record, set in 1947, by half-an-inch (12.7 centimetres).
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