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People walk in the snow in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A mild but widespread winter storm has developed over the Northeast and the upper Ohio River Valley, the second in less than a week for the regions. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Drees Homes is building 40 town homes at Linton at Ballenger in Frederick. The homes have 2,029 to 2,070 square feet and are base-priced from $282,900 to 292,900.

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A person salts the sidewalk in downtown Newark, N.J., on Wednesday. Forecasts called for 12 to 18 inches of snow inland from western New York to Maine starting late Wednesday into Thursday, then tapering off into a mix of rain and snow closer to the coast. (Associated Press)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, people walk through the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach, Calif. U.S. holiday retail sales this year are the weakest since 2008, after a shopping season disrupted by storms and rising uncertainty among consumers. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, photo, a customer shops for greeting cards at a Target store in Chicago. U.S. holiday retail sales this year are the weakest since 2008, after a shopping season disrupted by storms and rising uncertainty among consumers. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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People walk in the parking lot of a Best Buy store during a severe snow storm in North Olmsted, Ohio Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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Utility crews work to restore powe in Mobile, Ala., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, after a tornado swept through the area on Christmas Day. With only a handful of injuries and no deaths reported statewide from the storms, the head of the state's emergency response said it was difficult to fathom how the toll wasn't worse. (AP Photo/AL.com, Mike Kittrell)

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This Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 photo shows a damaged hall at Trinity Episcopal Church as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Tim Clarke, in black jacket, carries antiques from the the damaged home of family friend Anne Zieman (not pictured) as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Murphy High School athletic custodian Mike Gill, left, and maintenance man Stewart Lynch, right, asses the damage caused to the school by a Christmas Day tornado as residents clean up at first light Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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A storm-ravaged store and debris sit in Monticello, Miss. on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. More than 25 people were injured and at least 70 homes were damaged in Mississippi by the severe storms that pushed across the South on Christmas Day, authorities said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Enterprise-Journal, Philip Hall)

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A Coast Electric Power Association lineman grounds a line on a replacement pole in McNeill, Miss., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The Christmas day storms downed both telephone and electric power lines and poles throughout the state in addition to extensive private property damage. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Elizabeth Seymour, 9, front, gets a mouthful of snow while sledding at the Colllierville, Tenn., landfill with Carly Catanzaro, 10, and her sister Ellery Seymour, 10, back, Wednesday Dec. 26, 2012. Shelby county managed to avoid the heavy snow that blanketed much of Arkansas, but that didn't stop the trio of sledders from taking advantage of the popular hill. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

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A Indiana State Highway Garage snow plows moves work along Jonathan Moore Pike in Columbus, Ind. Wednesday Dec. 26, 2012. The blizzard warning issued the day before by National Weather Service came to fruition in the region as winds picked up and snow began falling in earnest before dawn. (AP Photo/The Republic, Joe Harpring)