HAMPTON, N.H. — A winter storm parked itself over the Northeast on Friday, bringing hurricane-force winds, flooding and more than 2 feet of snow as it cut power to more than a million homes and businesses.
Schools were canceled as far west as Ohio and roads closed as far south as West Virginia as the slow-moving storm spent a second day parked over the region.
The storm brought a wide array of calamity over a broad area after getting a slow start Thursday, when snow began falling in the Philadelphia region around dawn but didn’t start sticking to the ground until dusk.
It turned out that snow — 31 inches in Monroe, N.Y. — was only part of the story. In the parts of coastal New England where winds caused havoc, the precipitation mostly came as rain.
Power failures were so severe and widespread in New Hampshire — 330,000 customers in the dark in a state of 1.3 million people — that even the state Emergency Operations Center was operating on a generator.
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