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(CNN) — The Northwest braced for wintry weather Friday night while cities from Milwaukee to Boston were cleaning up after a major storm delayed air travel and created major havoc on the ground.

A commuter waits at a Detroit, Michigan, bus stop Friday morning.

&quot internet movie downloads;This is essentially the reincarnation of the same storm that brought the heavy snow to parts of California, southern Nevada and northern Arizona," Steve Corfidi, lead forecaster with the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, told CNNRadio.

Flights at most airports in the Midwest and Northeast were running on schedule after experiencing delays as long as three hours throughout the day. But storm warnings and watches remained in effect for most of region.

Almost a foot of snow was predicted for parts of central Michigan, CNN affiliate WNEM-TV in Saginaw reported. Classes were canceled in hundreds of schools across the state, according to the station’s Web site.

Corfidi said the storm is expected to maintain intensity into Saturday, continuing east and "spreading a swath of very heavy snow and freezing rain all the way into Pennsylvania and New York."

"There could easily be up to a foot of snow over parts of Illinois, northern Indiana, perhaps into parts of Michigan and southern Wisconsin, eastward into parts of New York and Pennsylvania," Corfidi said.

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In New Hampshire, still reeling from an ice storm last week, crews worked feverishly to restore electricity service to more than 30,000 customers remaining in the dark, CNN affiliate WMUR-TV in Manchester reported.

Southern New Hampshire could get 10 new inches of snow before midnight Friday, WMUR said.

Icy roads created from storms this week paralyzed much of the greater Seattle, Washington, area, where schools were closed and bus routes were suspended Friday as roads were too icy for buses to navigate.

Authorities were working Friday night on pulling back two charter buses dangling over a freeway, CNN affiliate KOMO reported.

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About 80 passengers were aboard the two buses when they slid down a slippery road and crashed. The buses crashed through a metal railing and screeched to a stop, hanging precariously over Interstate 5, according to KOMO.

A major storm with wind gusts up to 90 mph and snow that could be a much as a foot deep was moving in from the Pacific, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

"It’s going to be a real mess," National Weather Service forecaster Brad Colman told the newspaper.

Elsewhere, police in Buffalo, New York, shut down the city’s Skyway highway because of winds and snow, CNN affiliate WGRZ-TV reported. We

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