First Person: Wind, Snow, Rain, and Fog Arrive with Massive Blizzard

Yahoo! News is gathering brief first-person accounts, photos and video from the severe winter weather in the northeastern United States. Here's one resident's story.

FIRST PERSON | BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- I live in Brownsville in Brooklyn and work Tribeca. The weather here is becoming difficult for some of us to handle. Today at 7:45 a.m., I woke up seeing heavy snowfall through my window, so I instantly had the thought of calling out sick for work.

I built up the courage to commute to work anyway and by the time I reached to the subway the snow had turn into sleet. At 9:30 a.m., another passenger, Novella Ford, was entering the subway that I was exiting from; she looked soaked from the rain I asked her if it was snowing outside she then stated that she wished she had stayed home, but she has two teenage kids and not going to work is not an option for her, because she is a single mother with no benefits.

I wished her well and then surfaced from the subway in Manhattan the scene was very different; it was rainy, windy, foggy with some hail.

NYC is expected to receive 10 to 12 inches of snow, the heaviest will come Friday night and on Saturday morning. Winds might reach 75 mph.

I work for Borough of Manhattan Community College and so far there are no cancellations for the afternoon; however, there might be numerous cancellations for evening and Saturday classes.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/first-person-wind-snow-rain-fog-arrive-massive-214100661.html

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