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Thursday 16 March 2017

Northeast digs out from March snowstorm as ski areas revel

WILSON RING in many areas, but the 29.9
Associated Press inches of snow that fell by
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Wednesday afternoon at
Northeast was in dig-out the Burlington International
mode Wednesday, a day Airport in Vermont was the
after a treacherous storm second-most on record,
packing strong winds and about 3 inches shy of the
accompanying plummet- high established in January
ing temperatures left some 2010.
residents dealing with rock- “Yesterday it was too tough
hard ice and others with to drive out here, but today
more than 2 feet of snow. it was perfect,” said Lind-
The upshot: a late-season sey Poirier, who was skiing
boost to the region’s ski ar- at the Pats Peak ski area
eas. Wednesday in Henniker,
The powerful nor’easter New Hampshire. “The con-
that paralyzed much of ditions are really good. The
the Washington-to-Boston powder is awesome.”
corridor Tuesday fell short Many schools in New Eng-
of the predicted snowfall land remain closed or
Mariah Cunningham-Kanaus
walks home after digging
her car out in a parking area
on the eastern promenade,
Wednesday, March 15, in
Portland, Maine. A powerful
nor’easter buffeted much of
the Northeast with blizzard
conditions on Tuesday.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

had delayed openings
Wednesday, giving crews
time to dig out from the
storm, which followed a
stretch of unusually mild
winter weather.
In Albany, New York, streets
were largely cleared
Wednesday morning of the
almost 2 feet of snow that
fell a day earlier. But many
cars were still buried under
thick blankets of snow.
Marisa Burgos spun her
wheels in her snowy drive-
way in an attempt to go
out and buy some gas for
her snowblower.
“I was ready for spring. I
really was,” Burgos said. “I
want to enjoy the weather,
but it’s just so hard to do
that with all this snow.”q