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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 7 March 2018

Nor'easter packing heavy snow, wind threatens new outages

BOSTON (AP) — Utility work- each. Transportation de-
ers took advantage of partments in Philadelphia
milder temperatures and and Boston loaded up
sunshine Tuesday in their salt trucks and pre-treat-
scramble to restore power ed roads Tuesday after-
to thousands of custom- noon, and some airlines al-
ers around the Northeast, ready were waiving ticket
as another snowy, blowy change fees for airports in
nor'easter threatened a the storm's projected path,
new round of outages. such as Newark, Phila-
The National Weather Ser- delphia, Boston and New
vice issued a winter storm York's JFK.
warning that stretched Amtrak said it was can-
from eastern Pennsylvania celing some train service
to most of New England, Wednesday, and regional
from late Tuesday night into rail trains in Philadelphia
Thursday morning. will operate on a weekend
Heavy, wet snow and gust- schedule on Wednesday.
ing winds could take down School districts and mu-
trees and snap power lines nicipal operations around
already weakened from Pennsylvania and Con-
last week's storm, adding to necticut already were an-
stress for customers who've nouncing they would close
gone days without power. Wednesday. New Jersey
The outages turned to out- Gov. Phil Murphy and
rage for a New Jersey man Pennsylvania Gov. Tom
whose home had been Wolf declared states of A worker uses an excavator to clear rocks and debris, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, as waves continue
to breach the seawall in Marshfield, Mass. Utilities are racing to restore power to tens of thousands
without electricity since emergency. of customers in the Northeast still without electricity after last week's storm as another nor'easter
Friday, who threatened to The National Weather Ser- threatens the hard-hit area with heavy, wet snow, high winds, and more outages.
kidnap a utility company vice said travel is not rec- (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
employee and blow up a ommended Wednesday
substation. Robert Winter, and urged people to stay nor'easter were working rocks on Tuesday, but De- cess of failing." A slight con-
63, was charged with mak- off the roads to allow emer- frantically to head off fur- partment of Public Works solation is that the storm is
ing terroristic threats, ac- gency crews and clean-up ther damage from another Director Pete Buttkus called not expected to bring the
cording to police in Vernon. crews to do their jobs. Some severe storm coming this it a short-term fix. Rene coastal flooding like the
More than a foot of snow is areas will get as much as week. Public works crews Read, town manager of one last week. Some New
forecast for some interior 2-3 inches an hour. and private contractors the community about 30 England and New Jersey
areas, the weather service Workers in a coastal Mas- in Duxbury reinforced the miles (48 kilometers) south coastal communities still
said. Pennsylvania's Po- sachusetts town hit par- town's crumbling seawall of Boston, said the seawall are underwater from the
conos Mountains and parts ticularly hard by last week's with truckloads of large "is in crisis and is in the pro- earlier storm.q
of western Massachusetts
forecast with gusts of up to Mom, son buried to death under snow
could see up to 18 inches.
Damaging winds are in the

60 mph at Cape Cod, 45
mph at the Jersey shore KIRKWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A ties said. size of a trailer fell from the warming temperatures of-
and 30 mph around subur- mother and her 7-year-old Olga Perkovic, 50, and her roof, burying them under ten cause snow to slide off
ban Philadelphia. son died when a massive son, Aaron Goodstein, had about 3 feet (0.91 meters) roofs, occasionally injuring
Depending on the storm's block of snow fell from a been skiing in the Sierra of snow, the Alpine County people. But he said neither
track, communities along roof and buried them just Nevada near the Nevada Sheriff's Department said. he nor the sheriff can recall
the Interstate 95 corridor feet from the front door of state line and were return- "It was a freak accident," sliding snow ever killing any-
could see either lots of rain, their Northern California ing to the condo Sunday Undersheriff Spencer Pace one in the three decades
heavy snow, or a mix of mountain condo, authori- when a chunk about the said Monday. He said they have been there.q