The FINANCIAL — Some 2.8 million households in the U.S. Northeast remained without power on Sunday night as a rare October snowstorm bedeviled transportation and killed at least eight people.
The record-breaking snow was heaviest in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where 31.4 inches (80 cm) fell according to the National Weather Service. Northwest of New York City, in West Milford, New Jersey, 19 inches (48 cm) of snow fell.
"It's too scary — the windows are rattling too loud," a terrified Sophia Band, 6, said, her father recalled, during the crushing storm in Conway, Massachusetts overnight.
The snowy, windy weather that began on Saturday was expected to exit Maine on Sunday, but not before dumping up to a foot (30 cm) of snow on northern New England, particularly southern Vermont, the National Weather Service said.
Howling winds and heavy, wet snow snapped enormous trees like twigs, downing power lines from West Virginia to Maine. By Sunday evening, there were about 2.8 million households without electricity across the Mid-Atlantic and New England, according to Weather.com.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the state experienced the largest number of power outages in its history. Most cities in the state opened centers where chilled residents could stay warm.
Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey all said they did not expect service to return to normal for several days, while in Connecticut it could be more than a week. Public school closures were announced for Monday in Connecticut and New Jersey.
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