Sanitation workers shovel snow from Queens Blvd. during a snow storm Wednesday in New York.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy are dealing with new outages after a nor'easter left a blanket of snow that snapped storm-weakened trees and downed power lines.
In New Jersey, utilities reported 400,000 power outages early Thursday; 20,000 of those were new. In New York City and Westchester, more than 70,000 customers were without power after the storm knocked out an additional 55,000 customers.
There were 60,000 new outages on Long Island, where more than 200,000 customers without power.
There were pockets of new outages were reported in Connecticut.
