It's chemical warfare, damn it

Rico says it's a fine, white powder falling from the sky which is killing plants and small animals. That's chemical warfare, no matter what you say...
And Kevin Dolak and Leezel Tanglao at ABCNews.com confirms it (well, the snow part, anyway):

Commuters and travelers are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a massive snowstorm that slammed the Northeast on Sunday, causing a post-holiday travel nightmare as airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights and leaving others stranded in cars and on public transportation.
In New York City, subway passengers were stuck on the A train for more than six hours, WABC reported. About sixty people were stranded in their cars overnight on Interstate 280 in West Orange, New Jersey. New Jersey State Police Sergeant Steven Jones told ABC News Radio that plows are working to keep other major highways open. "As fast as they go through, the wind is blowing it back onto the roadways, and that's pretty much the toughest part of travel right now is that wind," he said.
The winter blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow in New York City and New England, and nearly two dozen states east of the Mississippi are under severe weather warnings. It is the same storm that brought flooding and non-stop rainfall to Southern California last week. The storm has dropped record snow in places such as Raleigh, North Carolina (7.1 inches), and Atlanta, Georgia (1.2 inches), according to the National Weather Service.
New York's Central Park has received about seventeen inches, and another two to four inches are still possible. The extreme weather conditions were accompanied by thunder and lightning in Manhattan. Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina declared states of emergency. New Jersey's acting governor, State Senate President Steve Sweeney, declared a state of emergency Sunday night, as the state was expected to get a foot of snow by midday on Monday. Lyndhurst, New Jersey has received a snowfall total of 29 inches.
Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts, including Boston, have also issued a blizzard warning, with 15 to 20 inches of snow expected. Boston has declared a snow emergency, with another 8 to 12 inches of snow possible in addition to the 6 to 8 inches the city has already received.
Forecasters said the snow will continue to calm down in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and New York into the morning hours today.
Boston is expected to have snow until about noon, while Portland, Maine, will see more than a foot a snow into the early and mid-afternoon.
But winds of 35 to 60 mph will continue until mid-afternoon in New York and Philadelphia, to southern New England. In Cape Cod and coastal Maine, residents can expect winds between 60 to 70 mph.

Rico says there's a lot more here.