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It was everything the weather forecasters predicted, and more! A big dump of snow on the City of Philadelphia, has pretty much shut\u00a0down public transit except for subway travel. More photos after the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Italian Market, usually bustling on a Saturday morning was a ghost town – the only business open was Golden Donut on 9th and Washington – because\u00a0Ellen is hardcore<\/em>! Here is a lonely little\u00a0Citro\u00ebn, trapped by a wall of snow courtesy of a city plow.<\/p>\n Even the pizza place was closed – just me, my adventurous son, and a cameraman from Channel 10 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was everything the weather forecasters predicted, and more! A big dump of snow on the City of Philadelphia, has pretty much shut\u00a0down public transit except for subway travel. 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