hartford to philly instead to stay with family here if the storm took a turn. >> we just go with the flow. rebooked a flight for 10:30 from philly to columbus and then 20 minutes after i book it, the flight, it got cancelled. >> reporter: some like spencer of austin, texas feel lucky to have made to it their destination be t weather got worse. >> i was really nervous, mid flight, i was looking out the windows, people next to me were like looking around, it was scary. >> reporter: some airlines are offering waivers to change flights airport officials are urging pass evening tours check with their airlines for their flight status before arriving. reporting ate philadelphia international airport anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> same storm system we are dealing business dumb continuing heavy wet snow in new york state. re hard at work trying to keep roads clear in syracuse. drivers and pedestrians are taking it slow, power outages are another big problem across the empire...

lauren casey. >> we have a new updated total for poconos and toby hanna and it is craze. we will get to that this crazy view of the sideways moving snow in center city philadelphia, keep going there i think march has officially, been coming in like a lion. 33 degrees. northwesterly winds at 32 miles an hour, absent the gusting, and feels like temperature 19 degrees. brutal. we are dealing with the powerful nor'easter that did bomb out our rapidly intensify , very apparent, driving all this moisture in from off the atlantic and now we are dealing with primarily snowfall across the good chunk of the delaware valley. seeing some pockets starting to break in of some dryer air but this morning we started off with rain/snow mix and new all that just heavy, wet snow, heaviest right now in and along i-95 corridor from center city philadelphia, wilmington, northern delaware, those purple returns of snowy sentencely pouring down, also in the poconos, snow, still falling up toward lehigh