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Thursday 8 March 2018

'Kind of awful': Another snowstorm clobbers the Northeast

By KAREN MATTHEWS sands of customers and York University student Ales-
DAVID PORTER produced "thundersnow" sa Raiford, who put two
NEW YORK (AP) — For the as it made its way up the layers of clothing on a pug
second time in less than a coast, with flashes of light- named Jengo before tak-
week, a storm rolled into ning and booming thun- ing him for a walk in slushy,
the Northeast with wet, der from the Philadelphia sloppy Manhattan, where
heavy snow Wednesday, area to New York City. A rain gave way to wet snow
grounding flights, closing New Jersey middle school in the afternoon. "I'd rather
schools and bringing an- teacher was struck by light- that it be full-on snowing
other round of power out- ning but survived. than rain and slush. It just
ages to a corner of the Officials warned of a haz- makes it difficult."
country still recovering from ardous evening commute The National Weather Ser-
the previous blast of winter. and urged people to stay vice issued a winter storm
The nor'easter knocked out off the roads. warning into Thursday
electricity to tens of thou- "It's kind of awful," said New morning from the Philadel- Waves crash against houses Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Sci-
tuate, Mass. Utilities are racing to restore power to thousands
of customers in the Northeast still without electricity after last
week's storm as another one threatens the hard-hit area with
heavy, wet snow, high winds, and more outages.
(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

phia area through most of 2 or 3 inches an hour, with
New England. Forecasters some places in Pennsylva-
said Pennsylvania, New nia, New Jersey and the
Jersey and the New York New York City area getting
City area could get a foot up to 10 inches by midaft-
or more of snow, and Mas- ernoon. Gusts up to 60 mph
sachusetts 1½ feet. were forecast on Cape
More than 2,600 flights Cod, 45 mph at the Jersey
across the region — about shore and 30 mph around
1,900 in the New York metro suburban Philadelphia.
area alone — were can- The wind knocked gobs of
celed. slush and snow off build-
It wasn't much better on ings and trees in Philadel-
the ground, with Pennsylva- phia and New York, forcing
nia and New York banning pedestrians to watch out.
big rigs from some major Across the region, power
highways and transit agen- lines and tree branches
cies reducing or canceling sagged precariously under
service on trains and buses. the weight of the wet show.
The storm wasn't predict- Suburban streets were lit-
ed to be as severe as the tered with downed trees
nor'easter that toppled and branches. “I don’t think
trees, inundated coastal I’m ready for this to happen
communities and caused again,” Caprice Dantzler
more than 2 million power said as she walked through
outages from Virginia to Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse
Maine last Friday. Square. She said many
But it still proved to be a trees that crashed into cars
headache for the tens of and homes and blocked
thousands of customers still streets during the last storm
in the dark from the earlier had yet to be removed. A
storm — and for the crews few hardy tourists waded
trying to restore power to through puddles and slush
them. PECO, Pennsylva- to visit the World Trade
nia’s largest electric utility, Center memorial, where
reported 120,000 outages Juan Escobar, visiting from
by evening, about 6,000 of Cali, Colombia, with his
which were left over from wife, Daniela, snapped a
last week. The storm un- selfie in front of one of the
loaded snow at a rate of reflecting pools.q