Last-minute shoppers cleared grocery shelves and raided snowblower dealers along the East Coast ahead of a storm that could drop 2 feet or more of fast-falling snow on some of the nation's biggest metro areas.
A front-end loader works in front of a pile of road salt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Chelsea, Mass. Residents and officials in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday.
Merrick McCormack was among hundreds who packed a Shaw’s Supermarket in Warwick, Rhode Island, with the entire state under a blizzard warning and officials mobilizing more than 500 snowplows. The Boston area, which was under a blizzard warning, could get buried under 18 to 24 inches of snow, with some isolated spots of eastern Massachusetts seeing as much as 30 inches , according to the National Weather Service.
The refrain from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state executives was: “Just stay off the roads.”
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