New York City’s Central Park had 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow by 8 a.m., the most for the month since 1948, as the storm’s center shifted north and east, the National Weather Service said. Snowfall in the city is eased by daybreak while the agency issued blizzard warnings for Boston and into Maine. More than 5,000 flights were canceled in the region since yesterday as airports closed. John F. Kennedy International will reopen at 6 p.m., while resumption times for LaGuardia Airport in New York and New Jersey’s Newark Liberty are undetermined, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s website.

David Cameron expressed frustration at the Heathrow chaos as it emerged that airport owner BAA had turned down the offer of army assistance to help clear snow.

The chaos was widespread:

• At Heathrow, many passengers were denied entry to terminal buildings and forced to wait in freezing tents outside Terminal One as two-thirds of flights were cancelled.

• Long queues tailed out of St Pancras station for a second day due to severe delays on Eurostar.

• Passengers were forced to abandon trains on the East Coast rail line, halted after overhead lines collapsed.

• Forecasters predicted no let-up in the freezing conditions until Boxing day at the earliest.

• Analysts said British Airways was losing £10m a day.

The Met Office warned that ice would be possible “almost anywhere” in the UK tomorrow after an overnight freeze. Further snow had been expected tonight in Wales and the Midlands and today throughout eastern England, the Midlands and northeast England – up to 25cm in places.

Snow snarled train services as well as airlines for a fourth day as travelers tried to get home for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Airlines and rail operators urged travelers to stay home if possible, and U.S. carriers waived fees as more snow was forecast for England, France and Germany. Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed yesterday from London, Paris, Frankfurt and Geneva.

U.S. carriers such as United Continental Holdings Inc. and AMR Corp.’s American Airlines waived ticket-change fees for passengers traveling to or from parts of Europe.

“We’re going to travel with the kids and go to a random part of the world,” Jolie told Ryan Seacrest on his KIISFM radio show Friday. “We’re going to travel and have an adventure because that’s what we love to do.”

It’s hard to image when the mother of six, who’s currently promoting her latest film The Tourist, has had time to shop for Christmas, but Jolie says she has all the kids’ gifts taken care of.

“I’ve got it all boxed and ready to go,” Jolie, 35, says. “I’m trying to get every stocking right.” Sounds like wherever the Jolie-Pitt gang spends the holiday, their stockings will be hung by the chimney with care.

The demonstrators — part of mass street protests called by the presidential challenger, Alassane Ouattara — had been marching from various locations in Abidjan “in an attempt to seize the state-run RTI” broadcasting offices when security forces fired on them.The West African nation has been in a political stalemate over the disputed election, in which both men claim victory.Ever since, tension has filled the air in Abidjan.

On November 10, 1975, while traveling on Lake Superior during a gale, the Fitzgerald sank suddenly in Canadian waters approximately 17 miles (15 nmi; 27 km) from the entrance of Whitefish Bay at a depth of 530 feet (160 m). Although it had reported having some difficulties before the accident, the Fitzgerald sank without sending any distress signals. Its crew of 29 perished in the sinking with no bodies being recovered. When the wreck was found, it was discovered that the Fitzgerald had broken in two.

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping. The disaster was the subject of Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 hit song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.

Haiti Earthquake: A women needing help

Photographs of the earthquake in Haiti are devastating. In the Haiti earthquake more than 50000 people are estimated to have died and many more are feared injured. Here are some photographs of the quake in Haiti released on Red Cross website:

Haiti Earthquake Photos

Post the links to your photos of Haiti Earthquake in the comments below.

Nomadic Matt

Nomadic Matt – who is Nomadic Matt? Nomadic Matt is a leading travel blogger who lives out on the income he generates from his blog www.Nomadicmatt.com. So if you want to be a professional blogger – learn few tips from Nomadic Matt. Nomadic Matt was interviewed by NY Times and his site got so many hits that servers got crashed. For those who want to know more about Nomadic Matt blogging secrets – here is a summary.

Started NomadicMatt.com blog in March 2008

This is now his major source of income where he makes about $7,500 to $8,000 per month

According to Nomadic Matt 800 to 1,000 visitors are enough to get you enough traffic to generate a good-size income

Beautiful photos are a must for a trvel blog

Blogging for about 15 hours a week is enough once you are up and running

So folks who want to make big in the world of blogging – read here the full story in NYT.

Work on the roads will start before the snow with pretreating throughout West Virginia.The Department Of Transportation (DOH) has a new website with information on road conditions that will be constantly updated through the weekend. That site is at www.transportation.wv.gov.

The longest-range 787 variant can fly 8,000 to 8,500 nautical miles (14,800 to 15,700 km), enough to cover the Los Angeles to Bangkok or New York City to Taipei routes. It will have a cruising airspeed of Mach 0.85(561 mph, 903 km/hr at typical cruise altitudes).