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M o r e i ns i deEast Coast blast:It s thesecond bigstormin aweek/A-3. Whotocall:Aist ofphonenumbers regardingutilities,roads, transporta-tion, parking/A-4. Scenesfromastorm:Stranded orsafeeveryone,hasa story totell.Syra-cuse'smayorloses his coatin thestorm/A-S. Warm welcome:RescueMissionandotheragenciesoffershelter from thestorm/A-5.Ashort workday:Manybusinessescloseearly, andit willcostthem/A-5. DPWchief:Itwas quiteadayforDavidPettitt,the.newDPWdirector/B-1. Culturalcancellations:Tonight'sAerosmith con-cert postponed; othercancellations/B-4. Workingitout: Employ-eesstruggleto work andhome/C-1.81Domeis down:The Car-rierDomeis deflated. Forthe first time in decades,snowcancels a home bas-ketballgame/D-1.

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The Post StandardBet ty Daniel managed to inchher way through Syracuse's snow-clogged streets Tuesday morningto pick up her second-grade son atH.W .Smith Eleme ntary School,b utshe wasn 't very happy about it. I think this was one time whenw e should have l i s tened to theweatherman, she said.Manyotherparentsin OnondagaCounty's three largest school dis-tricts agreed. O f f i c ia l s in Syracuse,North Syracuse an dLiverpool saidthey fielded numerous calls frompeople upset about their decisionsto open schools as usual Tuesdaymorning, only toclose them a fewhours later. I got a lot of blistering com-ments, Syracuse Superin tendentRobert DiFlorio said.People are vey upset , and Idon' t blame them, said North Syr-acuse Superintendent Jerome Mel-vm.Onondaga Centra l , Westhill , an dChittenango schools also openedbu t closed bef ore noon. OswegoSchool District students were sent(See W E A T H E R ,Page A-4)

Gridlock gripsregion in the wakeof the stormsurom.: .. ,. ALCAMPANIE/Thc Post-Standard

Dr.RobertOkun, left,shieldshis facewitha box Tuesday as he andGary Allenhelpa woman atFayette andSouthSalinastreets.O n e - t w o p u n c hThe National Weather Service expects lakeeffectsnowsquallsto affect Central New .YorkthroughWednesdayin theaftermathof Tuesday's snowstorm.,

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S o m e s n o w f a llc h a m p sFulton had thedeepestsnowfall of thestorm as of 7p.m.,Tuesdaythankstoearfy ilakeeffect snow, ffjfpContinuedlake |effect snowshouldadd tothetotals today.

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the 1993 blizzard. accumulation,butthe'intensity-9,5inchesintwohours-wasmuchmoresevere. .Thecharts.show,hour-by-hoursnowfallover25hours for bothstorms. Source:NationalWeatherService

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By ROBERTL. SMITHThe Post Standard

Th e snow f e l l likenever beforeTuesday, burying f a rm s an d citystreets alike in deep white , an dwith a speed stunningeven to Cen-tral New York.It's no t over yet. Forecasterssay a blast oflake-effect snow willrush intothevacuumleft by the de-par t ing storm, dumping another 2to 6 inches on parts of Syracuse,nor t he r n Onondaga County an dsouthernOswego County.Whatever the outcome, today'ssqualls will no t match the intensityofTuesday's deluge.Syracuse saw more snow f a l l inan hour Tuesday afternoon than itwill likely se e again. More than th eBlizzard of 1993. More than theNational WeatherService ha s everrecorded here.Five inches f e l l between noonan d 1 p .m. Another 4.5 inchesdroppedbetween1 and 2p.m. That's incred ible, bas ical ly,said John Elardo, a meteorologistwith the National W ea th er Serviceat Hancock Field.Well-meaning employers exacer-bated the flash-flood effect, releas-ing thousands of downtown officewo rk er s in to th e h e ig h t of thestorm. The result was an icy grid-lock that scraped in to th e earlyevening. This is crazy , said W i l l ia mRose, a Syracuse attorney watchinga sm art ly dressed w oman d irectsnar led traffic at Fayette an dWar-re n streets downtown. A t leastthe Blizzard (of'93) came at night.This one caught everybody out.Even though last year 's blizzarddumped more than twice as muchsnow on the area, ithappe ned overa week en dan d most people stayed

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