snowstorm

Breaking updates on snowstorm recovery
BWI to stay closed till Monday; Elkridge sees 32 inches of snow; 34,000 without power
Drivers going too fast, governor says, who also urges Super Bowl partiers to stay home
Updated 12:52 p.m.: Gov. Martin O'Malley and other state officials say main roads are clear, but are concerned that motorists are driving too fast on some roads, and losing control of their vehicles as they hit bigger patches of snow and ice.

At a noon briefing with the governor, state highway administrator Neil Pederson said crews will need to employ front-end loaders and dump trucks to remove piles of snow up to eight feet high from interstates. But because there is a limited amount of that equipment, the process will be slow.

With the temperature falling into the teens tonight, officials are urging people to watch the Super Bowl at home and refrain from driving to get to parties.

BWI airport remains closed, and while some airlines have not canceled flights today, there are no incoming planes to the airport, said state transportation secretary Beverly Swaim-Staley.

O'Malley said there were about 90,000 homes in Maryland without power, with 56,000 of them in Montgomery County.

A major traffic tie-up is occurring in Prince George's County, where power lines are down across Route 301 between Upper Malboro and Bowie, closing the road to traffic in both directions.
NJ dad delivers baby during snowstorm

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - February 7, 2010 -- Even though her doctor was stuck at home due to a blizzard, one New Jersey mom-to-be insisted that he deliver her child.
So her husband came through with his own special delivery.

When John Elwood heard the doctor, Edward Sung, couldn't get his car out - his Linwood home had no power, making his electric garage door opener inoperable - the Northfield man left the hospital around 4:30 a.m. Saturday and drove to Sung's home, about 20 minutes away.

But as Elwood backed his pickup out of the doctor's driveway, it got stuck in the snow. So both men grabbed shovels and dug it out, finally getting to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center's Mainland Campus in Galloway Township shortly before 10 a.m.

Bryce Anthony Elwood - who was born four weeks early - then arrived at 11:26 a.m. And both mom and child were doing well Sunday.

The Elwoods' saga began around 2 a.m. Saturday, when Tanya Elwood told her husband she wasn't feeling well. And when John Elwood called Sung and described her symptoms, the doctor told him to get her to the hospital right away.

After dropping their dog and 1-year-old son, Brayden, at Tanya Elwood's mother's house in South Egg Harbor, the couple made it through the heavy snow and reached the hospital around 3:30 a.m.

But when Sung eventually suggested the couple use another doctor, Tanya Elwood quickly rejected the idea.

"I didn't want someone who was on call, even if they're very good," she told The Press of Atlantic City for Sunday's editions.

So her husband decided to get the doctor himself.

"Everybody started clapping when they came into the hospital," Tanya Elwood said.