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IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, A SNOWY SURRENDER
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MANCHESTER, N.H. - In an unprecedented event yesterday, New
Hampshire stayed home.
This is not a place ordinarily felled by a snowstorm. It is a
point of regional pride, in fact, to scoff at the weather, pull up
one's boots, and get to work. But this storm, which unloaded up to 26
inches snow over 36 hours in parts of southern New Hampshire, was
different.
State government was shut down. Courts and town halls were closed.
Factories shuttered and went silent. Medical clinics and d...
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