<br /> At least three people are dead and more than 40,000 have been left without electricity Thursday as the East Coast is clobbered by 2018's first major storm.<br />The so-called “bomb cyclone” is expected to drop at least 18 inches of snow from South Carolina to Maine.<br />According to BuzzFeed News, the National Weather Service says the snow will be accompanied by hurricane-force winds. <br />
