The National Weather Service expects a developing winter storm to dump more than two feet of snow on portions of the southeastern United States, touching the lower tip of Illinois and having the largest impact on areas around Washington D.C. and the East Coast.
Ellen Davis is a 1996 Galesburg High School graduate and has lived in the D.C. area for about 14 years. She tells WGIL the incoming weather has people bracing for the impact.
“I was at the store last night, and they’re literally out of bread, out of milk, out of canned vegetables,” she says. “It’s just interesting a lot of people are really trying to hunker down.”
Davis adds that despite the empty store shelves, people have not been panicking.
Meanwhile, the New York area is taking things much easier. Galesburg native Steve Hall, who has lived in Queens since 2011, says the area is ready for a fairly typical snow storm.
“Four to six inches, which is what most of the city is expecting tomorrow, is not really that serious,” Hall says. “There really haven’t been any major changes to travel plans or anything like that, or expectations of outages. There isn’t much of an expectation that there is going to be anything.”
Galesburg has no snow in the forecast as the storm pelts the Southern and Eastern regions.
