US snowstorm kills 13

NEW YORK: At least 1.7 million people in five states in northeastern United States are without power for two days after a late October snowstorm dumped more than two feet of snow in some places in just two days.

Around 13 people have died as governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts pressed the emergency button.

Some of the heaviest snow fell in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, but snowfall amounts of at least a foot were recorded from West Virginia to Maine. The Berkshire County community of Peru, Massachusetts, received 32 inches of snow during the storm, while New York’s northeast areas and in western parts of New Jersey 19 inches of snowfall recorded in 45 minutes only. The roads were covered with piled up snow and at places blocked by fallen trees and the poles that sent traffic to a halt.