PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A major storm clawed its way up the East Coast on Sunday, crippling travel and disappointing New England Merchants the weekend before Christmas after blanketing parts of the mid-Atlantic with record snow - nearly 2 feet in places - and causing at least five deaths.
Blizzard warnings remained in effect Sunday for parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, with gusts up to 60 mph. As much as 16 inches of snow was expected To Cover parts of Southern New England.
The early arrival of Wintry weather is a quiet Sunday morning could not have been better timing, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
"Other than spoiling the Christmas shopping, emergency manager from the perspective it was the perfect timing," Judge said. "Even the cleanup today, we're not fighting the people who would be trying to get to work."
To the South, others struggled with the Aftermath.
On the cusp of the Winter Solstice, the storm dropped 16 inches of snow is Reagan National Airport outside Washington on Saturday - the most ever recorded there in December for a single day - and Southern New Jersey gave its highest single-storm Snowfall totals in nearly four years.
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