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East Coast buttons up ahead of snow; Boston could get 2 feet
Last-minute buyers cleared grocery cabinets and raided snowblower sellers Friday alongside the East Coast forward of a storm that would drop 2 toes or extra of fast-falling snow on some of the nation’s greatest metro areas, together with Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Officials from Virginia to Massachusetts declared states of emergency, imposed parking bans and warned of hazardous journey prematurely of moist, heavy snow that would fall as quick as 5 inches per hour. Merrick McCormack was amongst lots of who packed a Shaw’s Supermarket in Warwick, Rhode Island, with the complete state underneath a blizzard warning and officers mobilizing greater than 500 snowplows.