Weather Forecast: Spring's 2nd 'Winter' Storm Arrives As Deadly 1st Goes Out To Sea

A winter-like dead storm ripped across the upper midwest Sunday, leaving behind a path of destruction as it moved to the East Coast and unleashed, unleashing 65-mph gusts that uprooted trees and sent them crashing down, causing two deaths, multiple injuries and most of the hundreds of thousands of power outages. For good measure, the storm dumped up to 8 inches of snow on parts of New England and then, thankfully, exiting out to sea.

Hold your applause, please. In the annual April struggles between winter and spring, this one ain't over yet.

More winter storm warnings and weather advisories have been issued from Michigan to southern New England as a second, similar storm arrives early Monday morning with less powerful winds but carrying at least as much snow.

Forecasters warned that more trees weakened by the Sunday storm could fall, most likely in areas that took the worst of it over the weekend.

Forecasts call for snowfall totals in the Northeast ranging from a dusting to 8 inches, and the National Weather Service warned of the possibility of a flash freeze in southern New England. A flash freeze occurs when the temperature dives rapidly to below freezing, producing significant ice on roads.

This a day after Sunday's storm whacked states from Wisconsin and exiting only as a second storm was moving in.

Massachusetts is expected to get more snow Monday than anywhere, a bit unfair given it took perhaps the hardest hit from the first storm. Parts of the state were whipped with winds up to 65 mph, which blasted snow sideways and in circles as it fell, creating whiteout conditions for many motorists on roads already slippery and scatted with debris.

Reports of trees crashing down were many, including one in the small town of Abington, a small town about 30 miles southeast of Boston. Rotted and hollowed, it was uprooted Sunday morning and fell across a street at precisely the wrong time. It crashed on the roof of a moving car, killing both occupants, a man and his wife.

They were identified as Manuela Teixeira, 51, and Franklin Teixeira, 49, who lived in nearby Whitman.

Both were in the front seat of the car when fire crews arrived within minutes of a call from a bystander who witnessed the incident.

Emergency workers quickly pulled one of the victims out of the car, seriously injured but alive, Abington's fire chief, John M. Nuttall, told a news conference.

Emergency workers had to cut the car to get the couple out, Abington's fire chief, John M. Nuttall, told a news conference.

“If you can imagine a small car with a large tree falling on it. . . It just completely crushed the passenger compartment. This has been very difficult,”

Both victims were taken to South Shore Hospital, where they died.

Trees falling into power lines and the wet and heavy brand of snow were blamed for knocking out power to tens of thousands of electric customers across Massachusetts.

About 36,000 Eversource customers were without power at some point Sunday, spokesman Michael Durand told Patch. Unknown thousands of others served by the National Grid, the state's other major provider.

Power was restored to all but a handful of customers served by both companies Sunday night.

Wind was also blamed for a building collapse in Toledo, Ohio, and the partial collapse of two buildings in New York. Two people were injured in the University of Maryland town of College Park when a tree fell on a car.

A tally by the Weather Channel put the total number of power outages Saturday and Sunday at more than 340,000 across eight states.

Downed power lines were not merely an inconvenience. A falling tree in New Jersey snapped power lines, causing sparks that caused a church to catch fire.

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