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U.S. NEWS Saturday 31 december 2016

‘Turbocharged’ storm clobbers northern New England with snow

DAVID SHARP snow. in a fire at the height of
Associated Press “It hit over the house, and the storm in the town of
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) it was pretty loud and very Pownal, but it wasn’t clear
— The most powerful strong and very unusual. if the weather played a
nor’easter in nearly two That set me a little bit on role.
years brought heavy snow, edge,” he said. The heavy snow knocked
powerful winds and even By Friday morning, he was down power lines and tree
thunder and lightning to among the thousands of limbs. In Orono, the domed
northern New England, Maine residents without structure used by student-
leaving tens of thousands power. Compounding his athletes at the University
of people in the dark Friday misery: His snowblower was of Maine athletic com-
and burying some towns unable to cope with the plex collapsed under the
under 2 feet of snow. heavy snow and his wood- weight.
More than 100,000 homes carving shop was knocked Southern and western
and businesses in Maine offline for the day. Maine turned out to be in
were without electricity at The storm’s fury walloped the storm’s bull’s-eye, but
the storm’s peak, and resi- some places and skipped the storm played a game
dents were warned that others as powerful bands of of hopscotch, pummeling
it could take days to re- snow buried some commu- some communities with A motorist drives through a snow storm in Durham, Maine, Thurs-
store service. The National nities while others just miles snow while leaving others day, Dec. 29, 2016. A nor’easter is expected to drop 12 to 18
Weather Service received away received mostly rain. just miles away drenched inches of snow on parts of Maine, according to the National
Weather Servic
reports of snow falling at up Hundreds of cars slid off in rain. In Cumberland Associated Press
to 6 inches per hour. roads from the beginning County, Portland received
“It went from just a garden- of the storm on Thursday 7.7 inches of snow while near the Maine border. The nor’easter’s baro-
variety, low-pressure system through Friday morning, Standish was buried under New Hampshire and Ver- metric pressure reading
to a turbocharged storm,” when the sun appeared. 27 inches of snow, Schwibs mont were largely spared was expected to close in
meteorologist Eric Schwibs In Vermont, a 69-year-old said. Other big snow totals significant damage and on readings from a crip-
said. man was killed in Cornwall in Maine included 27 inches power outages. The power pling storm on Valentine’s
In Brunswick, resident Ja- when his car went off the in Naples, 25 inches in Par- company Eversource said Day 2014, a storm that can-
son Weymouth went to road in slippery conditions sonsfield and 22.7 inches in about 11,000 New Hamp- celed flights, knocked out
bed with a sense of dread Thursday and crashed into Hollis. Snow in New Hamp- shire homes lost power, but power and claimed more
as powerful thunderclaps a tree, state police said. shire peaked at around most was restored by Friday than two dozen lives on the
accompanied the falling In Maine, a man died 17 inches in several towns morning. East Coast.