By Reuters and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:45 EST, 6 February 2014 | UPDATED: 02:18 EST, 6 February 2014 The latest in a series of winter storms hit the United States on Wednesday, dropping wet, heavy snow in the Northeast states that disrupted travel and threatened supplies of salt needed to keep roads clear. Over a million homes and businesses were without power in the Northeast on Wednesday following severe snow and ice storms overnight, according to local power companies. The hardest-hit state was Pennsylvania with 849,000 customers without electricity at one point, according to the governor. By 8 p.m. local time, that was reduced to just over 625,000 customers, said Cory Angell, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency. Most of those were in Philadelphia and surrounding counties.
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Pennsylvania was hardest hit, with 625,000 customers still without power
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New York and other states are experiencing salt shortages, which has made clearing roads difficult
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New Jersey already has spent $60 million on snow removal this winter
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Nearly half of the flights out of New York City-area airports were canceled
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