By The Associated Press
A storm dropped a mixture of rain and snow on elements of New England with some areas recording greater than a half-foot (15 centimeters) of snowfall on Monday, knocking out energy for tens of hundreds of individuals and inflicting slick roads that contributed to a fiery propane truck crash in Vermont.
Evacuations have been ordered in two communities, together with at a pair of colleges, in Vermont after the propane tanker went off the Vermont Route 14 bridge over the Black River in Irasburg and caught fireplace, state police mentioned. Emergency employees created a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) perimeter across the crash web site within the occasion of an explosion.
At the height, greater than 25,000 houses and companies in Maine and greater than 11,000 in Vermont have been with out electrical energy as timber and branches laden with heavy, moist snow fell on energy traces, officers mentioned. The temperatures have been hovering near freezing throughout a lot of northern New England on Monday.
The National Weather Service declared the primary winter storm warning of the season for New Hampshire and western Maine. Northernmost Vermont was additionally beneath a winter storm warning on Monday. Far northern Maine, additionally beneath a warning, already noticed heavy snow earlier than Thanksgiving.
Some mountainous areas of western Maine and New Hampshire may see over a foot of snow. Vermont was anticipated to get nearer to eight inches (20 centimeters) of snow.
The snow made for a messy, slushy commute in lots of elements of the area. Many communities in northern New England had college delays and closures for the day.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”