![]() ![]() We should've probably come out and got a little earlier start, but we did all right," Whitcher said. "It was a bit of a surprise, the amount and how heavy it was. His crews were plowing and shoveling parking lots Sunday and would be back Monday to salt sidewalks and walkways. In Concord, N.H., Dave Whitcher's company had yet to prep its sanding equipment before the storm dropped nearly 2 feet of snow. "I didn't think it was going to be as bad." "They didn't hype this one as much" as Irene, she said. She was buying disposable plates and cups in a darkened supermarket, a setting that she said resembled "one of those post-apocalyptic TV shows." Kerry McNiven said she was "totally unprepared" for the storm that knocked out her water and power and sent tree limbs crashing into her Simsbury, Conn., home. A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn., Sunday, Oct. It wasn't just the trees that weren't ready for a wintry wallop. "I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow, because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now," he said while grabbing some coffee at a convenience store. In New Jersey's Hamilton Township, Tom Jacobsen also recalled heavy spring flooding and a particularly heavy winter before that. Many of the areas hit by the storm had also been hit by Irene. Customers loaded up on supplies, heard news updates over the intercom, charged up their cell phones, and waited for a suddenly hard-to-get cup of coffee - in a line that was 30 people deep and growing. One of the few businesses open in the area was a Big Y grocery store that had a generator. Roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast. Every few minutes, a snap filled the air as one broke and tumbled down. At least four hospitals were relying on generators for power.Īround Newtown in western Connecticut, trees were so laden with snow on some back roads that the branches touched the street. ![]() Thirty-two shelters were open around the state, and Malloy asked volunteer fire departments to allow people in for warmth and showers. "We are expecting extensive and long-term power outages." "It's going to be a more difficult situation than we experienced in Irene," Connecticut Gov. ![]() Parts of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Maryland and Vermont also were without power. Massachusetts had more than 600,000 outages, and so did New Jersey - including Gov. More than 800,000 power customers were without electricity in Connecticut alone - shattering the record set just two months ago by Hurricane Irene. "Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said. But no matter what, she said, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating. Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., said she hoped the power will come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house. And while children across the region were thrilled to see snow so early, it also complicated many of their Halloween plans. Roads, rails and airline flights were knocked out, and passengers on a JetBlue flight were stuck on a plane in Hartford, Conn., for more than seven hours. It was blamed for at least 11 deaths, and states of emergency were declared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor had gotten 26 inches by early Sunday. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. ![]()
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