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Northeast Faces Widespread Power Loss Amid Blizzard
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- Hundreds of thousands lost power across the Northeast as over a foot of snow fell in several states.
- Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York led in outages, and millions remain under blizzard warnings.
- Statewide emergencies, travel bans, and school closures were enacted in response to the storm’s severity.
Severe winter weather left parts of the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic without electricity as heavy snowfall and strong winds battered the region.
Over 146,000 in Massachusetts and nearly 123,000 in New Jersey were left out in the cold.
More than 71,000 in Delaware and over 18,000 in New York were without power, with outages widely reported.
“By tomorrow morning, some areas near the coastline could wake up to storm total snowfall amounts of one to two feet as the low departs into the Canadian Maritimes. For today, however, the very high snowfall rates and potentially damaging wind gusts will make travel nearly impossible from the DelMarVa Peninsula into southeastern New England,” the National Weather Service said.
Intense conditions led to travel bans for non-essential vehicles and widespread school closures.
Hundreds of flights were canceled at major airports like LaGuardia, JFK, Boston’s Logan, and Newark’s Liberty.
The National Weather Service warned of “very heavy snowfall rates” between 2 and 3 inches per hour, accompanied by wind gusts reaching up to 70 mph, making travel extremely dangerous.
Later this week, the Northeast could see more snow as a new storm moves in from the Upper Great Lakes.
Snow accumulation in New York City and surrounding areas was significant, with Islip recording 22.5 inches, Upton 18.3, Central Park 15.1, and Newark 18.3.
“I’ve never seen something like this,” said New York snowplow driver John Brown. “As you plow an hour later you come back it looks like you were never there.”
Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City issued an emergency declaration, ordered schools closed, and restricted car travel for all but emergency and essential work.
Rhode Island adopted similar travel bans, and governors in at least seven states, including New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, formally declared emergencies to respond to the blizzard’s impact.
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