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At least 20 deaths were blamed on the treacherous weather, including that of a pregnant woman who was struck and killed by a mini- snowplow in a New York City parking lot as she loaded groceries into her car. The sloppy mix of snow and face-stinging sleet grounded more than 6,500 flights Thursday and closed schools and businesses as it made its way up the heavily populated Interstate 95 cor- ridor, where shoveling out has become a weekly — sometimes twice-weekly — chore. ''Snow has become a four-letter word,'' lamented Tom McGarrigle, a politi- cian in suburban Philadel- phia. In its icy wake, utility crews in the South toiled to restore electricity to more than 800,000 homes and businesses, mostly in the Carolinas and Georgia. Temperatures in the hard-hit Atlanta area, with more than 200,000 outages, were expected to drop below freezing again overnight. Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow. Washing- ton, D.C., had at least 8, and federal offices and the city's two main airports were closed. The Virginia-West Virginia state line got more than a foot. Philadelphia had nearly 9 inches, its fourth 6-inch snowstorm of the season — the first time that has hap- pened in the city since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. New York City received nearly 10 inches, and parts of New Jersey had over 11. The Boston area was expecting 4 to 6, while inland Connecticut and Massachusetts were look- ing at a foot or more. In some places, the snow and freezing rain eased up during the day, but a second wave was expected overnight into Friday. ''It's like a dog chasing its tail all day,'' said Pat O'Pake, a plow operator in Pennsylvania. In New Cumberland, Pa., which had about 10 inches of snow by midafter- noon, Randal DeIvernois had to shovel after his snow blower conked out. ''Every time it snows, it's like, oh, not again,'' he said. ''I didn't get this much snow when I lived in Col- orado. It's warmer at the Olympics than it is here. That's ridiculous.'' In New York, Min Lin, 36, died after she was struck by a utility vehicle with a snowplow attached to it as it backed up outside a shop- ping center in Brooklyn. Her nearly full-term baby was delivered in critical condition via cesarean sec- tion. No immediate charges were brought against the snowplow operator. Across the South, the storm left in its wake a world of ice-encrusted trees and driveways and snapped branches and power lines. In Bonneau, S.C., Jimmy Ward and his wife, Cherie, lost power and spent Wednesday night in their home, warming them- selves in front of a gas log fire. But after running low on propane, they headed Thursday night for a hotel, where it was expected to be cozier but a lot less exciting than the night before. ''From 2 o'clock yester- day until this morning, it just sounded like gunfire — all the trees popping and falling,'' Cherie Ward said. In North Carolina, where the storm caused huge traffic jams in the Raleigh area on Wednes- day as people left work and rushed to get home in the middle of the day, National Guardsmen in high-riding Humvees patrolled the snowy roads, looking for any stranded motorists. Some roads around Raleigh remained clogged with abandoned vehicles Thursday morning. City crews were working to tow them to safe areas where their owners could recover them. Around the country, this is shaping up as one of the snowiest winters on record. As of early this month, Washington, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, New York and St. Louis had got- ten roughly two or three times as much snow as they normally receive at this point in the season. The procession of storms and cold blasts — blamed in part on a kink in the jet stream, the high-alti- tude air currents that dictate weather — has cut into retail sales across the U.S., the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Sales dipped 0.4 percent in Janu- ary. This latest round of bad weather threatens to disrupt deliveries of flowers for Valentine's Day on Friday. ''It's a godawful thing,'' said Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Vir- ginia. ''We're going to lose money. There's no doubt about it.'' Ronald Reagan Wash- ington National Airport was virtually silent, with all flights canceled. Travelers tried to catch some sleep in the terminals. AP photo Police and wrecker crews work to remove dozens of vehicles that were either parked or abandoned on Glenwood Ave. in Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday. The Triangle and the state were hit by a serious win- ter storm Wednesday, leaving hundreds of cars stuck or stranded on and along the roadways. Dems hope to force House vote on minimum wage hike CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — House Democrats said Thursday they will try to highlight GOP resistance to a higher minimum wage with a tactical maneuver meant to bring new attention to an issue they consider a political winner. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said her party will push a ''discharge petition'' when Congress returns from its recess on Feb. 24. If Democrats can per- suade roughly two dozen Repub- licans to sign the petition, it would force GOP leaders to allow a House vote on the wage issue. Most Republican lawmakers oppose a higher minimum wage. They say it prompts employers to cut down on hiring, a claim Democrats dispute. It's by no means clear Democ- rats can collect enough signatures in the House, where they hold 200 seats to the Republicans' 232. Three seats are vacant. Pelosi's announcement, at a House Democratic retreat in rural Maryland, might displease immi- gration reform advocates who want priority given to a discharge petition on that subject. Pelosi said a discharge effort may come later for immigration, but ''right now we're starting with the mini- mum wage.'' Democrats say most Ameri- cans favor both a higher mini- mum wage and sweeping changes to immigration laws. They say Republican leaders thwart the public's will by refusing to allow House votes on these topics. President Barack Obama and many congressional Democrats want to raise the federal mini- mum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10. An AP-GfK Poll in January found 55 percent of U.S. adults favor an increase in the minimum wage. Just 21 percent oppose it, and 23 percent are neutral. Democrats say it's frustrating to see polls show widespread support for their proposals — including a higher minimum wage and an immigration over- haul — even as Republicans appear likely to retain their House majority and possibly gain con- trol of the Senate in this year's elections.