emergency declarations for their respective states . `` It 's like a blizzard , you ca n't see far at all , '' CNN iReporter Alban Ajro , 32 , said Saturday night from Watertown , Connecticut . `` This is the first time that I can ever recall this kind of storm happening before Halloween . '' All domestic flights out of New Jersey 's Newark International Airport were canceled around 4 p.m. Saturday , according to an announcement made at the airport . Frustrated passengers filled an array of long lines , trying to change their tickets in light of the storm . Overheard : Storm sparks discussion about new grid Another airport in the Garden State , Teterboro , closed just after 2 p.m. before reopening hours later , the Federal Aviation Administration reported on its website . The FAA also reported major delays of , at times , over 5 hours at New York 's two airports , John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia . Richard Roth , a CNN correspondent , was among those affected when his Syracuse-to-Kennedy flight was diverted to Hartford because of the storm . He sat with his fellow passengers on the
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A freak fall snow storm slammed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday , leaving three people dead , more than 2 million households without power and thousands of air travelers stranded . An 84-year-old man was napping in a recliner at his home in Temple , Pennsylvania , on Saturday afternoon when part of a large , snow-filled tree fell into his house and killed him `` instantly , '' according to a state police report . With numerous downed trees in the area , rescue crews took two hours to `` safely remove the victim . '' Another person died while driving in Hebron , Connecticut , state emergency spokesman Scott Devico said . A third person was killed in Springfield , Massachusetts , when a man in his 20s ignored police barricades surrounding downed power lines and touched a metal guard rail , which was charged , said city fire department spokesman Dennis Legere . Predicting the system could dump as much as 18 inches of snow in some spots , Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo , New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in issuing