Travel trouble for East Coasters as snow storm moves closer

By Kirsten Glavin

kglavin@abc6.com

@kirstenglavin

WARWICK, RI –

All flights at TF Green Airport that were scheduled from about 6:30pm on, wound up getting cancelled due to winter weather hitting the East Coast, Friday evening.

"It is completely dead. There is nobody here,” said passenger Meredith Larmie, who was catching a flight to Honduras.

The flight schedule showed cancellation after cancellation.

"I was supposed to fly out of DC sometime this afternoon, but they cancelled my flight,” said another travler, Jessamyn West.  The Vermonter was grounded in DC, where the city’s mayor warned Friday that residents need to treat the storm as a life and death situation. 

"I had to talk to a lot of people at the airlines, a lot of people at the metro, and a lot of people at Amtrak, and a lot of people as I’m lumping around trying to figure out where I am in the DC metro,” West said.

West finally made it out by train, barely escaping the storm.  But others ABC-6 spoke to, were headed right straight into the heart of it.

"I’ve been keeping an eye on the trains all day and luckily it looks like this one is still headed to DC,” Jeff Crowley said at the Providence Train station.  He was caught in a last minute scramble, Friday afternoon. Many trains refused to go south of New York City. Some Amtrak trains cancelled all together.

"I came up here for a family event yesterday and was planning on heading back home later today, but my train had been cancelled,” he explained.  Crowley was one of the few passengers that made the last train from Providence, into the DC area.

"I’m heading back home right now. It’s sounding like its going to be about two feet of snow. So it should be interesting trying to get home from the train station tonight."