Early snowstorm socks Northeast, 1.7 million without powerAsSOCIATED PRESS October 29, 2011 5:54PM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency after the storm left half a million without power.
Utilities in Pennsylvania said 200 crews were working to restore power to 428,000 customers in northeast and central Pennsylvania, including more than 160,000 customers in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
They were among 1.7 million who lost power in the mid-Atlantic region as the snowstorm headed to New England.
In New York, more than 200,000 lost power. In Connecticut, utilities are reporting more than 370,000 without service. In western Maryland, there were more than 26,000 outages. And about 19,000 lost power in Massachusetts.
Communities inland were getting hit hardest, with eastern Pennsylvania serving as the bull’s-eye for the storm, said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro. Some places got more than half a foot of snow, and towns near the Maryland-Pennsylvania border saw 10 inches fall.
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