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No Treat: About 2 Million Still Without Power In Northeast

<p>This tree split in two due to heavy snow on its branches in Belmont, Mass.</p>
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This tree split in two due to heavy snow on its branches in Belmont, Mass.

That that struck the Northeast over the weekend, dumping up to 30 inches of wet heavy snow in some places, has left a couple million customers without electricity because snapped limbs and falling trees brought down power lines across New England.

And it will be up to a week before power is restored to everyone, .

In Connecticut, , 750,000 customers don't have power. about 621,000 customers in Massachusetts are in the dark (our colleagues have much more coverage of the situation in Massachusetts; is on the story as well).

The Union Leader says about 290,000 are without power in New Hampshire.

It all comes, of course, just as Halloween arrives. Many towns in the region, according to the Globe, are telling kids not to trick-or-treat tonight. Some have set Friday as the new fright night.

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