Latest snowstorm cuts a wide path of consequences.

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BOSTON -- Boston scrambled to dig out Monday from the second major winter storm in a week and delayed a celebratory Super Bowl parade, and forecasters from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, warned that ''flash freezing'' could make roads dangerously slippery. Here's the latest on the storm:

A DEADLY TOLL

Fifty-seven-year-old Cynthia Levine was struck and killed by a snowplow just before 10 a.m. Monday in the parking lot of a condominium complex in Weymouth, south of Boston, the Norfolk district attorney's office said.

In New York, state police said they were investigating a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 when a third vehicle lost control on the highway and hit the two vehicles from the first crash. The cause was not immediately known, but the crash occurred as snow and freezing rain hindered travel throughout the region.

SNOWFALL AND WARNINGS

The snowstorm, which dumped more than 19 inches of snow on Chicago, deepened off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations of 9 to 16 inches to Boston and up to a foot of slushy wintry mix to Hartford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Vermont -- places still reeling from the up to 3 feet they got last week.

''For New Englanders, we're used to this during the winter,'' said Matt Doody of the National Weather Service. But he cautioned that the evening commute would be messy.

More than 20 counties in New York state were under a winter storm warning, with up to 16 inches forecast for the eastern Catskill Mountains, and northern and central Taconics. Many Long Island schools delayed opening or closed due to a forecast of snow and freezing rain. By early afternoon, central Massachusetts had more than a foot.

COMMUTING PROBLEMS

The National Weather Service issued a ''flash freeze'' warning for New York City and Long Island. Similar warnings were out for Philadelphia and...

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