An early spring nor'easter is hammering the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds, with some northern areas expected to get up to two feet of snow. Around 630,000 homes and businesses remain without power Thursday afternoon from West Virginia to Maine. Police say a falling tree in a New York City suburb killed a woman late Wednesday afternoon. Dozens of flights to and from area airports have been canceled or delayed, and schools and government offices are closed in many towns. The storm comes as several other states continue to clean up from tornadoes and other intense weather that was blamed for at least two deaths earlier in the week.
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Saying this will require a "multi-day response" to restore power to some 170,000 customers without power, utility crews were calling for help from afar to help them fix the power lines now down across the state from storm damage, while some were digging out from more than a foot of snow, which continued to fall at 4 p.m.
An early spring nor'easter is hammering the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds, with some northern areas expected to get up to 2 feet of snow.