End Of Days: Three Dead As East Coast Hit With Biggest October Snow Storm In Over A Century | Bossip

End Of Days: Three Dead As East Coast Hit With Biggest October Snow Storm In Over A Century | Bossip:

Have you ever heard of a snowstorm in NYC in October? That’s because it probably hasn’t happened in your lifetime.

But it happened yesterday and the damage this storm is leaving behind includes three families mourning their loved ones.

More than 2 million customers were without power early Sunday morning as throngs of air travelers remain stranded. “It’s like a blizzard — you can’t see far at all,” Alban Ajro of Watertown, Connecticut, said Saturday night. “This is the first time that I can ever recall this kind of storm happening before Halloween.”

The early onslaught meant heaps of wet snow fell on trees still heavy with leaves — adding to the risk of falling branches and downed power lines. At least three deaths are linked to the unusual October snowstorm. An 84-year-old man was napping on his recliner in Temple, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when a part of a large, snow-filled tree fell into his house and killed him, according to a state police report. With numerous downed trees in the area, rescue crews took two hours to safely remove the victim, police said.

A motorist died in Hebron, Connecticut, state emergency spokesman Scott Devico said. A third person was killed in Springfield, Massachusetts, when a man in his 20s ignored police barricades surrounding downed power lines and touched a metal guard rail, which was charged, said city fire department spokesman Dennis Legere. Snow buried parts of New Jersey and New York on Saturday, including 15.5 inches in West Milford, New Jersey, and 12 inches in Harriman, New York. Cities in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland saw more than 9 inches of snow in less than one day.