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Massive Storm Roars into East Coast; Record Cold to Follow

A man pushes his way through a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday,
dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

By SUSAN HAIGH and offices and halted in wide effect, and wind ity was reported near Phila- Falls as he drove to work at
DAVE COLLINS transportation systems. delphia when a car could Verizon. He waited a half
Associated Press Forecasters expected the gusts hit more than 70 mph not stop at the bottom of hour for a tow truck to pull
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — storm to be followed imme- a steep, snow-covered hill him out.
A massive winter storm diately by a blast of face- (113 kph) in some places. and slammed into a com- “I didn’t expect it (the
roared into the East Coast stinging cold air that could muter train. A passenger in storm) was going to be a
on Thursday, threatening to break records in more than Eastern Massachusetts the vehicle was killed. No heavy one. That’s why I
dump as much as 18 inches two dozen cities and bring one on the train was hurt. went to work today. I’m
of snow from the Carolinas wind chills as low as minus and most of Rhode Island In New Jersey, Orlando Ig- going to stay in a hotel to-
to Maine and unleashing 40 degrees this weekend. mat’s car got stuck in a night,” he said.
hurricane-force winds and Blizzard warnings and braced for as much as 3 snowbank along the Gar-
flooding that closed schools states of emergency were den State Parkway in Tinton Continued on Page 3
inches of snow per hour.

Four people were killed in

North and South Carolina

after their vehicles ran off

snow-covered roads, au-

thorities said. Another fatal-