Hampton, New Hampshire – and continuing winter storm unleashed multiple risks across the Northeast on Friday, blasting the coast with hurricane-force winds that spread the hotel fire, flooding parts of the state of Maine, and drop 2 feet of snow on parts of New York, and cut electricity to the At least 700,000 homes and businesses.
Power failure was very bad in New Hampshire that even in the case of an emergency operations center was running on generators.
The wind was the highest recorded in 91 miles per hour in Portsmouth, New Hampshire – much higher than hurricane strength of 74 mph. Winds reached 60 miles per hour or more from New York in Long Island in Massachusetts.
Public Service of New Hampshire, the state’s largest utility, said power supply to at least 237,000 homes and businesses, said it would take several days before all the lights back on.
New York has more than 220,000 customers without electricity, mostly in the Hudson Valley north of New York City. Maine reported 130,000, 100,000 Massachusetts and Vermont 25,000 and 11,000 the state of New Jersey.
Heavy snow closed a 30-mile stretch of Highway 84 in the state of New York, state police Sgt. Stephen Meehan called the conditions of travel throughout the mid-Hudson Valley “absolute disaster”. Tuxedo, New York, reported 26 inches of snow, with more coming down.
In New York City, dropped 17 inches of snow before dawn and was more than expected. One man was killed by snow Laden branch of a tree in Central Park, one of the three cases and the deaths of at least blame the storm.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who had said on Thursday that the nation’s largest public school district will remain open, changed his mind. It’s snow on the second day of the month there, but only finished fourth in six years.
Eric Warner of Brooklyn was brave to do so. Was driving a truck loaded with milk, eggs and cheese from Teaneck, New Jersey, in Manhattan. The roads were terrible, he said, and even take these funds and it was difficult.
“When the snow hits you, it feels like little needles,” he said.
It’s not just for schoolchildren who will not go in today.
Airports across the region were dealing with cancellation of heavy and tell passengers to check with airlines before trying to access to airports.
New Jersey Transit has canceled all buses in the northern half of the state before he traveled Thursday morning began in earnest, including those that take the workers to New York. Government offices in thestate of New Jersey was opened two hours late.
It was expected the day after airlines canceled hundreds of flights across the north east of the country, and the real threat to be the strong winds that could create the conditions of the snowstorm.
In Hampton, New Hampshire, and the wind helped spread the blaze, which started in the hotel overlooking the ocean and uninhabited and other damage between six and eight companies, including restaurant and arcade games, said Capt. David Lang fire. There were no injuries, and no reason had been identified.
One day after parts of northeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey and New York and Maine to deal with the rising of the 20 inches of snow and the northern areas of New England survived the heavy rains that have pushed some rivers to flood levels, and more of the same thing was expected throughout the day Friday.
Worse than expected in the state of Maine in the south, where the river Presumpscot knew more than 8 feet above flood level of about 7 o’clock on Friday.
Much of the region, particularly in South Philadelphia and New Jersey, and only recently finished cleaning a pair of storms a few weeks ago.
The most recent winter storm packing wet, heavy snow, which can be downloaded foot or more in some areas and strong, and destructive winds could complicate any cleaning process.
The National Weather Service said in the area of strong low pressure was expected to continue off Long Island on Friday before moving slowly northward to southern New England and weaken on Saturday.
In northeastern Pennsylvania on Thursday, emergency crews rescued dozens of Philadelphia-area high school students on a ski trip in Susquehanna County when their bus stuck on the road 374. The coordinator of emergency in the province that students Susquehanna 70 escorts and spent the night in the Red Cross center in Union Dale. There were no injuries.
Nearly 20 inches of snow covered the Pocono] Summit, in north-eastern part of the state, while farther south, and Philadelphia had just been received from the dust from the first day of the double-barreled storm. There are a few inches more than expected in the city, which suffered a snowy winter ever, with more than 70 inches.
Seventeen-year-old from Newark Andre Lopez had been hired for the day to help shovel sidewalks on Pennsylvania Station in Newark. He said that the wind whipped the snow that was hovering in place when dredging began at 1 am they had calmed down a bit but was still falling steadily from 6
“I have got mad and clothing to keep warm out here,” he said. “We’ve got to keep bundled up.”
Lopez said he was not able to take a break, trying to keep a step ahead of the accumulation.
“It’s kind of fun in the day,” he said.
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Mulvihill said from Philadelphia. Contribute to this report were Associated Press writers Chris Carola in Albany, New York, Shaun Marsh in Trenton, New Jersey, Samantha Henry in Newark, New Jersey, Randy Pennell in Philadelphia, and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vermont, Michael Rubinkam in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Kylie Armstrong and Ella Ilnytzky inNew York City.
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