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A Significant Coastal Storm Is Headed Straight For Sandy-Wrecked Regions

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Just a week after Superstorm Sandy nailed the U.S. East Coast, a new storm is cooking up off the Southeast coast. It's expected to smack the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast by Wednesday night.  

The National Weather Service tweets: "Significant coastal  expected to develop by midweek; impacts could be exacerbated by damage caused by ." 

If the low pressure system stays on track we can anticipate "a very windy, rainy and cold Wednesday into Thursday along the Northeast I-95 corridor,"says Weather.com

Snow is also a possibility if temperatures dip low enough.

Forecasters say this storm will have far less impacts than Sandy, but it could hamper relief efforts along the coast, and plunging temperatures could endanger the lives of those still without power.

See the trail of destruction left by Hurricane Sandy > 

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