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Strong Nor'easter storm knocks out power to nearly a quarter of a million customers

Large outages are reported in New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. The storm is dropping massive amounts of snow less than a week before the first day of spring.
A large and long-lasting Nor'easter storm is hitting the Northeast U.S. on Tuesday, bringing more than a foot of snow to some areas — with much more expected.
Updated March 14, 2023 at 1:51 PM ET

Heavy, wet snow is expected to bring power outages and make travel "dangerous to impossible" in the Northeast, as the first nor'easter storm of the season hits the region.

Shortly before 11 a.m. ET, Windsor, Mass., reported 28 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service office in Albany, N.Y.

By 1:3o p.m. ET, a total of nearly 250,000 electricity customers were without power.

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