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Added: Mar 3, 2009
Massive Snowstorm Plows Into Northeast By DEEPTI HAJELA , AP posted: 14 HOURS 19 MINUTES AGO comments: 638 filed under: National News, Winter Weather PrintShare Text SizeAAA NEW YORK (March 2) - A ferocious storm packing freezing rain, heavy snow and furious wind gusts paralyzed most of the East Coast on Monday, sending dozens of cars careening into ditches, grounding hundreds of flights and closing school for millions of kids. The devastating effects of the storm were seen up and down the coast. A crash caused a 15-mile traffic jam in North Carolina, forcing police and the Red Cross to go car-to-car to check on stranded drivers. The storm was blamed for 350 crashes in New Jersey, and a Maryland official counted about 50 cars in the ditch on one stretch of highway. Skip over this content Latest Weather Photos AP 500 photos Previous Next A late-winter snowstorm that hit the Southeast on Sunday rolled into the Northeast overnight. The massive weather system dumped nearly a foot of snow in some spots and canceled hundreds of flights in Boston and New York. Here, pedestrians brave the snow in Philadelphia Monday. (Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker) Skip over this content AOL Weather: Get the Forecast for Your Area Skip over this content By Monday, the storm had moved north into New England, and most areas in the storm's wake expected to see at least 8 to 12 inches of snow. The weather contributed to four deaths on roads in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and on Long Island. Diane Lugo, of Yonkers, N.Y., got a ride with her husband to avoid walking 10 minutes in the slush to her bus stop. "Getting out of the driveway was pure hell," Lugo said. "He got to work late. I'm obviously late." The South was especially hard hit, dealing with record snowfalls, thick ice and hundreds of thousands of power outages in a region not accustomed to such vicious weather.
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