Hundreds of schools were closed and crews worked to clear slush and ice from highways yesterday following the latest in a series of snowstorms to batter the Northeast this winter.
A foot of snow hit cities in southeastern Massachusetts, where a January storm buried some towns under 6-foot-tall drifts. A foot also was possible by this morning in parts of Maine, New York and Pennsylvania.
The storm marked the third snowfall in the Northeast in a week.
I'm sick to death of it
I can't deal with it it's too much 23-year-old Charlene Hylton groaned as she waited for a bus yesterday in Rochester, N.Y.
Boston had a season total of 78.1 inches of snow yesterday, compared with an average annual snowfall of about 42 inches. The record is 107.6 inches, set in 1995-1996.
Schools were closed from North Carolina to Maine, where state government workers in Augusta also were told to stay home.
Boston schools had used up all of their allotted snow holidays and spokesman Jonathan Palumbo said the school year will now go right up to June 30. Any more snow days, he said, and the district will have to make them up, possibly by holding Saturday classes or continuing into July.
Michael Fedorouk, 11, and Darkeem Kelow, 13, were happy to have yesterday off to sled and skate but neither liked the prospect of Saturday or summer classes.
On Saturdays
we always have games. I don't want to go to school on a Saturday. I might miss my games
and he might miss his football games
Fedorouk said.
Airlines canceled dozens of flights yesterday at Boston's Logan airport and three major airports in the New York City area. Thousands of customers lost power at the storm's peak.
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