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Run this town
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‘Free’ ad leads to fraud suit
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One ‘Delight’ after another
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A National Park Service employee shovels snow along the National Mall yesterday.A National Park Service employee shovels snow along the National Mall yesterday.
Photo: GETTY IMAGES
 

Second blizzard roaring toward blanketed East

New storm

Forecasters predict blizzard conditions in New York City tomorrow, with 6-10 inches of snow accompanied by strong winds.

 

Another big winter storm was forecast yesterday for the U.S. mid-Atlantic still struggling to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow and closed the federal government.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Washington, D.C., beginning at noon today and continuing into tomorrow, with projected snow totals of 10 to 20 inches.

The potentially crippling new storm was expected to hit other big cities along the East Coast, like Baltimore and Philadelphia, that are still digging out and extend into New Jersey and New York, up to Boston.

It would only add to the 32 inches of snow that had fallen in suburban Washington in the biggest snowfall to hit the city in decades.

The federal government was closed yesterday, though President Barack Obama still held meetings.

Danger looms in the next round

Local officials in Montgomery County, Md., said the next storm could cause some roofs to collapse from the weight of all the snow and there could be more power outages. In the county, about 80,000 people lost power on Saturday.

REUTERS
 
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