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Mike Stiefel, who owns a snowplowing company in Montville, was so inundated with calls Wednesday, he turned his phone on silent a far cry from 10 months ago, when he estimated the lackluster winter cost him $15,000 in lost earnings. A winter like that put quite a few people out of business, Stiefel, owner of Mike & Sons Snow Plowing LLC, said of last winter s low snowfall.
As of Wednesday evening, over 60 million residents of the East Coast were under winter weather advisories, watches or warnings in anticipation of the major winter storm, stretching nearly 1,000 miles from northern Georgia to New England. The eastern Connecticut shoreline was forecast to get up to 16 inches of snow by Thursday afternoon.