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Army National Guardsman Sgt. Danny Sousa, center, and others from the 79th Troop Command work alongside Barre firefighters to clear trees and make roads passable in Barre, Mass. Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. The unseasonable winter storm over the weekend dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow and snapped trees and power lines, causing widespread power failures and threatening to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

October storm disrupts Halloween across Northeast

HARTFORD, Conn. — Twelve-year-old McKenzie Gallasso was deciding between dressing as a witch or a werewolf when the phone rang with bad news: Halloween had been canceled.

(HOLLY RAMER/The Associated Press) Snow and autumn leaves cover fallen limbs after a snowstorm in downtown Concord, N.H., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011.

Snow smacks Northeast; power could be out for days

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. — Millions of people from Maine to Maryland were without power as an unseasonably early nor’easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow.

Floods swamp East Coast

Eastern winter storm

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