Massachusetts declares state of emergency
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Had enough yet? A historic nor’easter pummeled the region on Monday — with one spot even breaking the snow record from the Blizzard of ’78 — as power crews work around the clock to try to restore electricity for hundreds of thousands.
Massachusetts is digging out from a record-setting blizzard. Power could remain out for days as cities try to plow streets.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service expect the storm to wind down Monday afternoon into evening. But more snow is expected later this week, with a clipper system likely bringing some accumulation in higher elevations Wednesday into Thursday.
More than 30 inches of snow fell in parts of Massachusetts and more snow is on the way.
Heavy snow and high winds are creating unsafe driving conditions and reduced visibility in western Massachusetts.
Multiple towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island notched more than three feet of snow during Monday’s blizzard, capped by a record-setting snowfall near Providence that widely eclipsed a mark set during the infamous Blizzard of 1978.