BY STEFANIE REDDING Most people dream of a white Christmas not a white Halloween-- the snowstorms in the North East have taken residents by surprise and done some serious damage. Here's CNN... "Snow is still falling and blowing around some parts of the northeast at this hour. The rare autumn snowstorm is blamed for at least five deaths. From Maine to Maryland, more than 4 million people lost power, most of the outages were caused by downed power lines hit by snow laden tree limbs." The surprise storm led Governors to declare states of emergency in parts of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. The Commissioner of New York City's parks department says the damage caused by the trees is due to most trees still having leaves. Those leaves collect snow, and the extra weight causes limbs to break off. This "abnormal" situation is the one of the factors making the storm harder to tackle. After drawing criticism for poor response to last year's Christmas blizzard, the New York City Department of Sanitation is on a mission to redeem itself. The city's deputy mayor told The New York Times, "...more than 400 salt spreaders were ready to work through Saturday night, 1400 plows were prepared, and 2200 employees were set to work midnight to 8 am, a total he called a "full complement." Although the amount of snow is unusual for this time of year -- it isn't the first time snow fell in October. A writer for Huffington Post reports ... "The past 143 years, New York's only ...
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