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Two feet of snow forecast for Boston in storm that is ‘pretty much unprecedented,’ Governor Baker says


February 9, 2015   by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


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BOSTON – The third major winter storm in less than two weeks inflicted fresh snow – and misery – across in parts of the northeastern U.S. on Monday.

Some areas of Massachusetts had about a foot (30 centimetres) of snow before dawn Monday and the storm was expected to last all day Monday. The Boston area was expected to receive up to two feet (60 centimetres) of snow through Tuesday while Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, could each get up to a foot.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker called the recent winter storms ‘pretty much unprecedented,’

The storm made for a slippery, tedious commute to start the workweek.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (pictured) called the situation from the stream of storms “pretty much unprecedented” and he ordered nonemergency state employees to stay at home.

Boston’s Logan International Airport will be allowing only a limited amount of flights to arrive and depart Monday so travellers should check with their airlines, the governor said.

Massachusetts emergency management officials said that snow-laden roofs collapsed Monday in three cities. No injuries were reported.

WBZ-TV reported that the set of “The Finest Hours” – a Disney film about a Coast Guard rescue of crewmen aboard an oil tanker wrecked off Cape Cod during a 1952 blizzard – suffered a partial collapse at an old shipyard in the city of Quincy. The movie starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck is scheduled to open next year.

The Amtrak railway cancelled portions of its passenger train service in upstate New York because of the storm.

Government officials Sunday announced that schools and municipal offices in many communities would be closed and that parking bans would be in effect. As accidents began to accumulate, drivers were warned to stay off the slick roads.


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