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 Olive Dupuis, 84, was found dead Thursday morning next to her car,
near her home in the coastal city of Salem, north of Boston, police
lieutenant Matt Desmond said, adding weather was likely a factor
with sub-freezing temperatures and snow. Foul play was not
suspected.
Separately, in Yarmouth, a town on Cape Cod, police found
97-year-old Richard MacLean dead in deep snow next to a carbon
dioxide exhaust vent on the side of the home on Wednesday, according
to a statement on the police department's Facebook page.
Police, who went looking for the man at the request of his son, said
MacLean apparently died while trying to clear the vent in snowy
conditions and there was no indication of foul play.
 The Massachusetts cases, which are still under investigation, bring
the death toll from a wind-whipped blizzard that slammed the
northeastern United States earlier this week to at least four.
Police in Trumbull, Connecticut said an 80-year-old man collapsed
while shoveling snow and died on Tuesday at a nearby hospital.
Police said a teenager died late on Monday when he crashed into a
lamp post as he was snow-tubing in the New York City suburb of
Suffolk County, on the east end of Long Island, which saw more than
two feet of snow in places.
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The blizzard disrupted life for millions of residents across
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, dumping up to
3 feet (90 cm) of snow in places, though it largely bypassed New
York City.
On Thursday, Yarmouth Police Chief Frank Frederickson said in a
statement that pickup trucks they use to plow residential streets
"are just not big enough to remove the 2 to 4 foot snow drifts" and
regretted road-clearing efforts in the town were dragging on.
"I can attest that in my 35 years on the department I have never
seen a more difficult snow removal operation," Frederickson said.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson)
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