DEEP FREEZE SETS IN
Forecasters predict record-breaking cold to stick through the weekend in eastern half of the U.S.
BOSTON — Frigid temperatures, some that felt as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region dug out from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding a day earlier.
Forecasters predicted strong winds and record-breaking cold air to hang around through the weekend.
At least eight people died in weather-related accidents, including a 13-year-old girl who was sickened by carbon monoxide in an apartment building in Perth Amboy, N.J.
Massachusetts emergency officials say more than 1 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Nantucket Harbor after a “catastrophic” sewer main break.
They say the 20-inch main failed Thursday in several places on the island off the coast of Cape Cod, and they still were working to fix it Friday amid frigid temperatures. Because ferries to the island were canceled, the Massachusetts National Guard had to fly repair crews out to theisland by helicopter.
An estimated 50 cars were destroyed Thursday in the parking lot of Gloucester High School, north of Boston, after they were left in a high school parking lot during the storm, and then a surge submerged the lot under a few feet of salt water.
The arctic blast could make temperatures feel as low as minus 15 degrees to minus 25 from Philadelphia to Boston and make residents of states like Maryland and Virginia shiver from temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to 15 degrees.
The wind chill could make it feel like minus 35 degrees in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, the National Weather Service said.
Thursday’s storm packed wind