The Craziest Travel Pics From Snowmageddon Weekend

Yahoo Travel Contributors

Winter Storm Jonas dumped record amounts of snow on the East Coast over the weekend, paralyzing transportation systems and dominating everyone’s social media feed.

Both New York and Washington D.C came to a complete standstill as travel bans were issued and thousands of flights were cancelled across the region, while over 70,000 people were without power.

The treacherous conditions wreaked havoc on the travel plans of tens of thousands, but provided plenty of fodder for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

If a snowstorm happened and social media wasn’t around to document it, did it really happen at all?

Here are our favorite travel snaps born of Snowzilla:

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These two brave beach-goers in Massachusetts were not about to let a bit of snow stop them from having a good time as they enjoyed a beer in their swimwear with their Yeti.

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(Photo: Twitter)

Snow crept up around the Duquesne University men’s basketball team bus, when it was stranded on the Pennsylvania Turnpike during their journey home from a game on Friday night. They were unable to move for over 12 hours!

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Eerily quiet scene at Atlanta Airport on Saturday, usually one of the world’s busiest airports, after hundreds of flights were cancelled due to Storm Jonas.

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These girls had their trip to Florida cancelled because of the weather, but donned their bikinis anyway and attempted their own version of dog-sledding with two disgruntled looking corgis.

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(Photo: Instagram)

This incredible view of winter storm Jonas from the International Space Station shows the immense magnitude of the powerful weather system.

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(Photo: Twitter)

A Jet Blue plane at JFK airport was completely covered by a huge snow drift.

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Dozens of travelers, stranded for hours on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, set up a make-shift church at the side of the road for two priests to hold mass.

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The view from the Tropicana Hotel of a completely deserted and snow covered Atlantic City. Not a person in sight in this usually bustling tourist spot.

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Huge amounts of snow even made its way underground to the NYC subway.

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The aftermath of the storm called for some sunbathing in the snow in Pennsylvania.

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