IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. The east coast of the United States frozen under the snow after the passage of a “cyclonic bomb”

A victim to be deplored in the state of New York, 3,500 canceled flights and tens of thousands of homes without electricity. The “cyclonic bomb” announced by the American meteorological authorities paralyzed, Saturday January 29, the east coast of the United States. Back in pictures on a blizzard that disturbed the daily life of 70 million inhabitants.

A landscape frozen in the cold

The National Weather Service (NWS) recorded gusts of 80 to 120 km / h and predicted polar temperatures on the east coast of the United States. These conditions have completely frozen New York and its surroundings.

Long Island, northeast of the New York metropolis, was impossible to reach by rail, while commuter trains were stuck in the snow. This is where the town of Stony Brook is, immortalized here, as a prisoner of the cold.

Conditions worthy of the ski slopes

At least 30 centimeters of snow on the sidewalks of the trendy Cobble Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sixty centimeters in Long Island, or in Boston, Massachusetts… Once the blizzard passed, winter sports enthusiasts took advantage of these exceptional conditions.

In Prospect Park, a park in Brooklyn, residents have taken out sledges and cross-country skis.

More dissipated, in Washington Square park, in New York, young people improvise a giant battle of snowballs.

A break of calm and solitude

The New York State Governor Kathy Hochul asked residents on Saturday “to continue at all costs to avoid traveling while our teams clear the roads”. An instruction which for a time emptied certain streets of the megalopolis, at least until the blizzard swept them away.

Emptied or almost, since some, like the “naked cowboy”, a street artist installed in Times Square, refused to let the extreme weather conditions hinder their habits.

A galley and a beautiful mess

In Boston, 900 snow plows were deployed in the streets. “The snow was supposed to be light, but it’s a bit wet now, and therefore heavier”, commented to AFP a snowplow driver, Mark Burns.

With this blizzard, the working conditions for snow removal teams are particularly difficult, as here in Boston, where the wind caused a worker to fall.

In New York, the yellow taxis that usually crowd Times Square, the emblematic square of Manhattan, have given way to the snow plow.

When the snowplow does not pass, stay with the shovel and the elbow grease, to try to free his car, like here, in Stony Brook.