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- THE WEEK, Page 18NATIONThe Nasty Nor'easter
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- A huge, howling storm sweeps across the U.S. and lashes the
- East Coast
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- 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.
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