Millions are without power in the northeast with up to 31.4 inches at Jaffrey, NH and 30.8 inches in Plainfield, MA of wet snow bringing down trees and power lines. The damage in places as bad or worse than Irene. I have been without power since 8 PM Saturday. Will probably like many others not be back up til sometime this upcoming week. Water also not working - pumping station must be powerless. Can't remember that before.

The number of homes and businesses without power on the East Coast has grown to 2.7 million, including more than 650,000 in Massachusetts. In New Hampshire, 200,000 are without electricity.

"If you are without power, you should expect to be without power for a prolonged period of time," Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Saturday night. Malloy says more than 750,000 customers are without power. That breaks a record set when the remnants of Hurricane Irene hit the state in August. Malloy says people could be without electricity for as long as a week.

More than 617,000 people are without power in New Jersey. Utilities in Pennsylvania are saying more than 423,000 are without power, and Western Maryland had more than 29,000 outages. In the New York City area, more than 70,000 had lost power. Even more upstate have not been counted.

Look at the snowfall totals from 5 northeast NWS offices in this PDF (format doesn't translate well). It has many reports. Here are some the major cities we thought records for October might be broken. At least Hartford, Worcester and NYC set new records. BOS and PVD have yet to report.

Here are some outage maps. Most of Connecticut, west and central MA, southern NYS and southern VT and NH are in the dark this morning.

Surrounding areas have outages too. The most the media reports is over 2.5 million homes and businesses are without. MSNC had the right headline but there type was off:
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NEW YORK — A rare October snowstorm blasted across the heavily populated U.S. Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to about 2.5 customers, delaying airline flights and threatening some areas with up to a foot of snow.

By 2 p.m. EDT, New York City had broken an October snow record with 1.3 inches in Central Park, making this the snowiest October there since records began being kept in 1869, NBC New York reported.

In a tweet, New York City officials said that all city parks were closed, citing the risk of falling trees.

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The tree damage is huge. Recovery will be slow as damage will continue to occur as snow laden and damaged limbs fall as the winds pick up.

We will add satellite snow cover views and maps and photos later today. My generator kept us warm last night but will have to go wait on long line this morning for more gas. My Weatherbell MIFI has me able to see the internet and post.

ONE OF THE DANGERS that remain will be people trying to clear driveways and yards that are in danger of being hit with falling branches and enocuntering downed power lines.

The snowstorm is remarkable but snows like this usually go w/o outage. The trees still in leaf are the problem. Google the early October storm of 1987 in eastern NYS when very heavy wet snows fell on trees just starting to turn color. I still remember the damage along the Taconic Parkway visible in 1988.

By the way I pulled my car out in front of the garage door open to vent out the generator exhaust. People have been known to steal generators - desperate measures for desperate times. I also chained it to the beam. However a large branch fell and is resting on the car. Looks like it got the leaf end and so no serious damage.

MORE LATER.....I hope