For the do-it-yourselfer, the snow blower business also was bustling on Friday. Among the customers were people whose 25-year-old snow blowers conked out in the face of such a heavy snowfall, said John Lusk, a general manager at The Engelhart Center in Madison.

The place is just absolutely loaded with people buying snow blowers and buying parts and oil and gas cans,” Lusk said. “They waited until the very bitter end – until we got snow – before they decided to do something.

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