More MSP flights canceled as winter storm pounds Northeast

At least 20 flights from Minneapolis to the East Coast were canceled before dawn Tuesday because of a snowstorm.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport schedule shows most flights to Boston, New York and Newark, N.J., have been canceled through the early evening.

A howling blizzard heaped snow on Boston, the rest of eastern Massachusetts and parts of Long Island on Tuesday, delivering wind gusts topping 75 mph, but it failed to live up to the hype farther south in Philadelphia and New York City, which canceled its travel ban amid better-than-expected weather conditions.

More than 7,700 flights in and out of the Northeast have been canceled, and many of them might not take off again until Wednesday. Schools and businesses let out early Monday. Government offices closed. Shoppers stocking up on food jammed supermarkets and elbowed one another for what was left. Broadway stages went dark.

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