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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Crews scramble to restore power in Northeast

3rd blizzard in a month pummels region, causing travel and electricity chaos


A driver stops as a tree hangs over a power line over a road in Farmington, N.H., on Friday. More than a million homes and businesses in the Northeast were left without power after an overnight storm with high winds knocked down trees.







View images from the two snowstorms that blanketed the Northeast in two days.


NBC News and news services
updated 8:57 a.m. ET, Sat., Feb. 27, 2010


ALBANY, N.Y. - Utility crews pushed through deep drifting snow, fallen trees and downed power lines Saturday to restore electricity to more than a million homes and businesses that lost power a day earlier as a slow-moving winter storm pounded the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.

Snowfall amounts varied throughout the Northeast, but nearly every state was left to deal with the fallout of powerful, gusting winds that created near-blizzard conditions in some areas that have faced three strong storms this month.

Power failures were severe and widespread, ranging from more than 330,000 in New Hampshire, to over 200,000 in Connecticut and New York and more than 100,000 in Maine and Massachusetts at the storm's peak.




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