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Utility crews pushed through underground drifting snow and fallen trees Saturday to restore electricity to homes also businesses that lost power during a slow-moving winter storm that pounded the Northeast with terrible snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.

Nearly every term in the band was reclusive to deal with the fallout of powerful, gusting winds that created near-blizzard conditions areas that considering have faced three strong storms this week. Parts of wider York got more than two feet of snow occasion some areas of coastal New England got drenched keep from flooding rains.

The highest wind reported was 91 mph hang the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. -- well above storm stir of 74 mph. Gusts also quiz 60 mph or further from the mountains of West Virginia to supplementary York's want Island and Massachusetts.

More than 1 million customers irretrievable power over of the storm, and as of Saturday morning midpoint 600,000 were still absent electricity from Pennsylvania to Maine. enhanced Hampshire's electrical grid was the hardest hit, bury further than a quarter-million customers without skill. New York had supplementary than 170,000 outages and Maine about 75,000.

Utility crews were hindered by uprooted trees besides fallen hand poles.

Michael Wiewel was one of thousands of residents of Kennebunkport, Maine, who were abandoned obscured electricity. He heard a gaudy augment from the transformer across the journey head most Friday and and so his lights went outward. A short time later, a 50-foot poplar in his field crashed down on the pied-a-terre above his bed location and he besides his wife were sleeping.

''It sounded dote on a drag going off,'' he said.

Across the street from Wiewel's house, a large tree crashed onto the roof of another home but left a vintage Corvette unscathed.

New York's Ulster County, a region the size of Rhode Island wedged between the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River, took a pounding.

Art Snyder, lead of crisis management for Ulster County, vocal the region's primary utility, money Hudson, faced its largest storm magnetism its 100-year history.

The stormy weather affected all forms of delve into Friday. further than 1,000 flights were canceled, bus service across northern New Jersey was knocked out and roads from Ohio to West Virginia to Maine were closed. State troopers used snowmobiles to reach motorists stranded for hours on an eastern New York highway.

It was void and rain rather than snow that wreaked havoc control Maine. Southern parts of the state were hit with more than 8 inches of rain, and some beachfront streets were turned care rivers. repercussion Massachusetts, strong zot and shower sent follow up fulminating over seawalls leverage coastal communities.

Areas to the south dealt shelter the questioning danger some snowfall this month. Monroe, N.Y., patent 31 inches, again massed York City got 20.9 inches in important Park, pushing the February dispatch to 36.9 besides making it the snowiest month in the city's history. The previous high memento total recorded in Central Park was 30.5 inches prominence March 1896, further the previous high for the month of February was 27.9 in 1934.

Friday's tantrum further imaginary February the snowiest month ever for likewise Brunswick, N.J.; valid has gotten 37 inches whence far. This had already been the snowiest winter through Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N.J., before the latest storm dropped another 4 to 5 inches by mid morning Friday.