A snow-storm hammered the Mid-Atlantic States and the US capital on Saturday resulting in power cuts and leaving emergency crews struggling with heavy, wet snow that stacked almost 2 feet on roadways and collapsed trees.

Clutching states, snow floored from southern Indiana eastward to New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the New Jersey coast. CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson reported that emergency has been declared from Virginia to New Jersey, blizzard warnings were issued for the District of Columbia, Baltimore, New Jersey and Delaware. This could be termed as “the biggest for the U.S. capital in modern history”.

Karyn LeBlanc, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Department of Transportation said, "If the storm tracks as they're saying we should be good and open for business Monday morning. That's our goal”.
Philadelphia International Airport cancelled more than 250 flights for Friday and Saturday.

Tracy Noble, a spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said, "So far our call volume is below average, so it seems motorists have taken our advice to stay off the roadways”. About 3 feet snow is anticipated by the forecasters in mountains of West Virginia and Maryland, west of the nation's capital.