As the heavy, wet snow fell in Chicago, residents were working their shovels and snow-blowers.
"It's the real deal the heavy, wet snow, " said National Weather Service forecaster John Cannon in Gray, Maine.
About 40, 000 people in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas awoke to no power as heavy, wet snow weighed on power lines.
In the region, heavy wet snow has pine trees bent over to the ground and power lines torn free from houses.
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The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
The National Weather Service predicted up to 7 inches of heavy, wet snow in southeastern Connecticut and wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Tom Croci, the supervisor of Islip Town, said the municipality's regular plows weren't powerful enough to move such heavy, wet snow in such volumes.
But where 5 to 10 inches of wet snow was supposed to fall on DuPont Circle, not even the slush was accumulating Wednesday afternoon, said organizer Michael Lipin.
These outages were the result of a combination of whipping winds and power poles and lines sagging, and sometimes snapped, under the weight of especially heavy, wet snow and ice.
In Virginia, as much as 12in of wet snow were forecast to hit coastal areas, while the inland Blue Ridge Mountains and other mountainous areas could receive as much as 21in.
The National Weather Service was predicting up to 7 inches of heavy, wet snow in southeastern Connecticut through Friday morning and wind gusts that could hit 50 mph, bringing possible power outages.
In the upper Midwest, thousands of homes and businesses also lost power because of heavy wet snow, ice and wind in the past couple of days, while rain and snow raised flooding concerns in various areas of the Midwest.
In Maryland, Michael Pugh donned a wool coat, knit cap, waterproof pants and heavy boots to trudge more than a mile through four inches of wet snow to his bank in downtown Hagerstown, about 70 miles west of Baltimore.
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.
Municipal workers from New York to Boston labored through the night Saturday in snow-bound communities, where some motorists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow.
The electricity was going out in places, too, thanks to the wet, heavy snow downing trees and power lines.
I. (AP) New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.
Unusually cold and wet weather replete with snow, sleet and heavy winds have slowed down the researchers on the fourth consecutive NASA summer field session.
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There's a schedule of pay bumps for overtime, for night shoots, for very-late night shoots, for wet work (rain or snow), for smoky work (cigarettes or manufactured haze) and, on some productions, for showing up in wardrobe that's out of sync with the seasons say, shorts and sandals for a beach scene in the dead of winter.
The cloth is washed in hot water and massaged with the feet, after which the wet fabric is placed on the snow-covered fields for ten to twenty days to be lightened by the sun and the ozone released by the snow s evaporation.
Utah is blessed with powdery snow that is slippery without being particularly wet, a resource that it shares with very few other places.
The center of these tires uses volcanic ash to grip ice and snow, while other sections are designed to handle wet and dry roads.
But they also say the week ahead will be mild but wet with temperatures back into double figures after last week's heavy snow.
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