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THE WEEK, Page 18NATIONThe Nasty Nor'easter
A huge, howling storm sweeps across the U.S. and lashes the
East Coast
Early Americans lived in fear of a Nor'easter howling in from
the Atlantic. Modern Americans see nature as well under control
and react with indignation when it is unchained. So it was last
week, with holiday schedules busy and tempers already frayed, as
one of the fiercest storms of the century hit the East Coast.
Record coastal floods and snowfalls -- nearly 3 ft. in parts of
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts -- resulted when
a 170-m.p.h. jet stream collided with a storm that had caused
tornadoes in California, then skimmed along the Gulf Coast and
out to sea before doubling lethally back. Though it was no
Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many
thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall
Street lobbies. Hundreds of thousands lost power. Among the
pervasive damage: windows sucked out of New York City
skyscrapers and a century-old fishing pier swept away in Ocean
Grove, New Jersey.