SNOW HITS NEW ENGLAND FOR 3RD DAY (A USA TODAY Article)
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Snow fell across parts of New England for the third day in a row Wednesday, adding to last month's record accumulations and closing schools.
Flurries also extended into the Ohio Valley, and some children had an extra holiday as classes were canceled in parts of West Virginia and Ohio.
Temperatures fell to freezing levels as far south as the Florida Panhandle, and wind chill readings were below zero in parts of northern Kentucky.
Following the snowiest December on record, many areas of New Hampshire got about a foot of snow on New Year's Day, with a couple of inches added during the night and a couple more likely Wednesday. Storm totals could reach 18 inches in parts of Maine and New Hampshire and up to a foot in Vermont. The latest snowfall in New England followed a storm on Monday that made for the area's snowiest December in decades.
The snowfall delayed the start of the 2008 state legislative session in Augusta, Maine, from Wednesday morning until the afternoon.
(Insert: So, I can get to the hospital by 7AM to round on my patients, where by the way, I saw many nurses, medical students, residents, et. al. also working all through the storm, but our elected officials can't make it to their legislative session. If they are paid by the hour, then that's fine. And, we wonder why nothing gets accomplished. Of course, maybe that's a good thing.)
"This will be a memorable storm for the amount of snow it dumped in such a short amount of time," weather service meteorologist David Shuler said. He said it was the region's heaviest New Year's Day snowstorm on record.
There were no immediate reports of deaths blamed on the weather...
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However, the snow did help one of my patients who burned his hand frying eggs while inebriated. He told the ED physician he immediately plunged his hand into a snowbank.
