A customized jet engine is used to melt ice on a Paine Field Airport runway in Everett, Wash. on... 
(Kevin Nortz/The Herald/AP Photo)Snow is also expected to envelop the Northeast -- from Buffalo, N.Y., to northern New Jersey -- this holiday week.
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