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Two Dead as Winter Storm Pluto Tracks Out of Northeast, New England

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Winter Storm Pluto continued to dump snow Thursday in parts of the Northeast and New England.
A man died after losing control of his vehicle on a snowy road in Vermont.
One person died in a multi-car crash on snowy roads in Cayuga County, New York.

A man was killed in Vermont Thursday as Winter Storm Pluto began to make its way out of the Northeast and New England, where it piled on top of feet of snow that had already fallen.

Vermont State Police said Rodney Newton was driving southbound on Interstate 91 Thursday when he lost control of his truck on a snow-covered road, MyNBC5.com reports. The vehicle rolled over and ended up in the median of the road. Investigators say speed and snowy conditions caused the fatal accident.

More than a foot of snow fell quickly in Maine, a state that was already digging out from feet of snow in the past week.

"It looks like we are going to get some intense snow tonight, up to a foot of heavy, wet snow," the Westbrook Police Department said in a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon. "We aren’t going to sugar coat it. Tomorrow’s morning commute will be a royal pain."

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A parking ban was in place overnight Thursday in Portland, according to the Portland Press Herald. The parade of winter storms has severely depleted the city's snow-removal budget and exhausted workers, Portland spokeswoman Jessica Grondin told the Press-Herald.

More than 16,000 Central Maine Power customers were in the dark Thursday morning.

The storm began dumping snow on upstate New York Wednesday morning, and in Cayuga County, a collision forced officials to close Route 20 east of Auburn. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, four vehicles were involved in the wreck that occurred on a snow-covered road. One person died and three others were injured, New York State Police Sgt. David Dominick told the Post-Standard.

A travel advisory was issued for Cayuga County as a response to the crash, the report added.

In New Hampshire, authorities warned residents to clear snow from the roofs of their homes and businesses or risk roof collapses under the weight of more snow, according to the Associated Press. All across the region, customers swarmed stores in search of shovels, roof rakes and snow blowers, but those items quickly sold out.

"This was full of shovels before the big blizzard came," Mark Dwyer, an employee at Ace Hardware in Falmouth, Maine, told the AP. "Within a day or two, it was pretty much like this — wiped right out."

At Boston Logan International Airport, more than a dozen flights were canceled Thursday, according to FlightAware.

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