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City workers with the Department of Streets beging clearing snow from city streets on Hepburn Street at the Williamsport Water Authority
Area residents woke up Thursday morning to a white winter wonderland after a storm dumped a record amount of snowfall on Lycoming County.
Only once previously has a two-day storm brought two feet of snow, according to National Weather Service Forecaster Rachel Gutierrez. The first storm occurred in 1964 when 24.1 inches fell. This week’s snowfall just barely exceeded that long-standing record, she noted.
The snowfall measured 24.7 inches at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville. Other snowfall figures were 19.8 Inches in Picture Rocks, 21 inches near Jersey Shore and 22 inches in Cogan Station, Gutierrez reported.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
Who, in their right mind, saw it coming?
After a relatively quiet, rather “normal” first quarter, we all learned of a “new normal” that would reshape just about every aspect of daily life for those lucky enough survive the global pandemic known as COVID-19.
But first a little happiness arrived before the sorrow.
Following the New Year’s celebrations and promise to commit to resolutions, the first baby of the year was born at UPMC Susquehanna.
The baby arrived shortly before 5 a.m. Jan. 2. The story, aptly written by veteran newspaper man Philip A. Holmes, the lead police and fire reporter for the Sun-Gazette, described how Dusty Harkey was 37 weeks pregnant when she walked into the Williamsport Regional Medical Center’s Birthplace.
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From Mirror staff reports
LOGANTON A crash involving dozens of vehicles on an interstate in central Pennsylvania claimed the life of one person Wednesday afternoon, state police reported.
A second individual died from a medical issue unrelated to the accident, Trooper Angela Bieber said. A state police spokesman had said earlier Thursday during a ZOOM news conference that included Gov. Tom Wolf that there were three fatalities. That was incorrect, she said.
State police said the crash was reported Wednesday afternoon in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in eastern Clinton County, between the Loganton and Lock Haven exits.
Police said initial reports indicated that the crash involved 30 to 60 vehicles with multiple injuries including two or three fatalities. But PennLive.com reported Thursday that the accident involved 55 tractor-trailer trucks and 11 passenger vehicles.