News-House's video: Polar Vortex Man Throws Boiling Water And It Turns Into Snow

Polar Vortex Man Throws Boiling Water And It Turns Into Snow. In advance of the Great Lakes-fed storm, authorities closed schools in Buffalo and surrounding districts for Wednesday and Thursday and the state announced a ban on tractor-trailers and buses from the New York State Thruway. The ban between Rochester and the Pennsylvania border took effect at 8pm Tuesday. A cold emergency was declared in Washington, DC, with additional services put on for the homeless. In Atlanta, some 300 flights were canceled Tuesday. Amtrak also axed all trains into and out of Chicago on Wednesday and most services to or from Chicago on Thursday. Crews had to set rail tracks on fire to keeps trains moving smoothly on Tuesday. More than 2,500 flights were canceled early Wednesday, largely out of Chicago O'Hare and Chicago Midway international airports, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. The US Postal Service also took the rare step of suspending mail delivery to parts of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, the Dakotas and Nebraska on Wednesday because of the dangerous Arctic blast.