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Winter whopper buries region
(By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff, 1/24/05)
The Blizzard of 2005 delivered a staggering blow to much of Eastern Mass., dropping more than 3 feet of snow in some places and whipping it into towering drifts with howling gusts that topped 80 miles per hour.
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Like people throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Jackie Ranta worked Jan. 23 to excavate her car, half hidden under a snowdrift along the Lynnway.
(Globe Staff Photo / Mark Wilson)
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A woman fed birds from a frozen porch Jan. 24 along the coast in Hull, where the outside of some houses resembled the inside of freezers.
(Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan)
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(By Joanna Weiss and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff, 1/25/05)
State roads were treacherous, hundreds of houses were without electricity, and people were stuck outside and inside their homes yesterday in parts of Cape Cod, hit hard by the Blizzard of 2005.
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