On the 21st, a 79-year-old woman was killed after a snow-packed aluminum patio roof collapsed on her. Farther north, snow and ice affected the Midwest.
The severity of the Blizzard of 2003 can be attributed to the unusually favorable atmospheric conditions surrounding the storm (However, early on February 16, heavy snow started falling in those two cities, and the snow later developed in 42nd street, NYC, near the UN, looking West during the February 2003 winter storm.