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Northeast snow storm (Photos)

People work to shovel snow-covered cars out in Boston’s Charlestown section, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, one day after a blizzard dumped about two feet of snow in the city. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Handicap parking signs are buried in a snow mound, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 in a Central Islip, N.Y shopping center parking lot.  A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding coastal eastern Long Island into Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Snow plows clear the Long Island Expressway, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 in Central Islip, N.Y.  A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding coastal eastern Long Island into Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Water floods a street on the coast in Scituate, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Paul Baxter digs his cars out of drifted snow after a winter storm, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Marlborough, Mass. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
Cots line a hallway where stranded travelers slept at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Pedestrians walk bundled against the blowing snow during a winter snowstorm, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Boston. A blizzard heaped snow on Boston, the rest of eastern Massachusetts and parts of Long Island on Tuesday, delivering wind gusts topping 75 mph, but it failed to live up to the hype farther south in Philadelphia and New York City. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New York State Department of Transportation plows clear snow off the Long Island Expressway after it was reopened on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Melville, N.Y. The Expressway and other roads were closed after a blizzard hit the New York area overnight into this morning. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)(AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

A howling blizzard heaped snow on Boston, the rest of eastern Massachusetts and parts of Long Island on Tuesday, delivering wind gusts topping 75 mph, but it failed to live up to the hype farther south in Philadelphia and New York City, which canceled its travel ban amid better-than-expected weather conditions.

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