{"id":145395,"date":"2026-02-25T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145395\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:07:12","slug":"more-snow-falls-on-the-northeast-as-the-region-scrambles-to-clear-piles-from-last-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145395\/","title":{"rendered":"More snow falls on the Northeast as the region scrambles to clear piles from last storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 Power failures, waist-high canyons of snow and more flurries Wednesday bedeviled parts of the Northeast in the aftermath of a massive storm<\/a> that dumped icy piles on streets and sidewalks from Maryland to Maine.<\/p>\n

The fallout persisted across the region: In Rhode Island, where 3 feet of snow surpassed the record set in the Blizzard of 1978, people were stuck in their homes for a third straight day as residential streets remained unplowed, trash pickup got postponed in places and some schools went virtual.<\/p>\n

More than 138,000 customers were still without power Wednesday afternoon, nearly all of them in Massachusetts and particularly in Cape Cod, according to poweroutage.us. Utility crews were working 18-hour shifts to restore electricity and people huddled in warming shelters for respite and to recharge phones.<\/p>\n

Anny Enos took her three grandchildren to a warming station in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Wednesday to charge their devices and get a change of scenery. She said she hasn\u2019t had power since Sunday afternoon and was afraid that she might not get it back until Friday.<\/p>\n

She threw out most of her fridge Tuesday and was just hoping for the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to say it but it doesn\u2019t seem like they were ready,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"WinterA man clears his driveway after a winter storm dumped about 3 feet of snow across the region, on Tuesday, in Cranston, R.I. Charles Krupa \/ APReinforcements, overtime and ’emergency shovelers’<\/p>\n

The storm created \u201cthousands\u201d of damage sites that required workers in some cases to remove big snow piles with backhoes before new poles could be installed or old ones repaired, according to Doug Foley, president of electric operations for Eversource in Massachusetts. More crews from other states arrived to help on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Most unwelcome, up to 3 more inches of snow fell early Wednesday, adding to slippery conditions before temperatures rose, creating slushy messes.<\/p>\n

The gigantic snowstorm this week has cities working overtime to clear towering heaps.<\/p>\n

In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani got creative: in addition to spreading 143 million pounds of salt by Tuesday evening, the city signed up at least 3,500 people as emergency shovelers, working $30-per-hour shifts to clear snow from bus stops and streets.<\/p>\n

Police said carbon monoxide poisoning killed a man in an area of Rhode Island that had lost power. Joseph Boutrous, 21, had told a fellow Salve Regina student he was going to charge his phone in his car, Newport Police Capt. Joseph Carroll said. The exhaust pipe was obstructed by snow, police said, calling his death accidental. The sophomore from Bohemia, New York was an offensive lineman on the football team. A social media post said his teammates are heartbroken.<\/p>\n

Some sidewalks are impassable for people with disabilities<\/p>\n

There was plenty more work left to do. Parts of New York have people feeling marooned, according to Jeff Peters, spokesperson for the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find a portion of a sidewalk that is clear, and then there\u2019s maybe a 6-inch pathway that can only be walked with one foot in front of the other and no room for a stroller, rollator, walker or crutches,\u201d Peters said. \u201cThen you get to the corner and not only is it unshoveled, but you have basically a glacier at the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WinterA man shovels snow to take out his car parked in Central Park a day after a winter storm Tuesday in New York. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez \/ AP<\/p>\n

Tina Guenette, who uses a motorized wheelchair, had to shovel out her yard this week after more than 33 inches fell in Harrisville, Rhode Island, a town about 17 miles northwest of Providence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really have no choice if my service dog wants to go outside,\u201d Guenette said. Harrisville\u2019s volunteer snow-shoveling program hasn\u2019t had volunteers for years, she said.<\/p>\n

The storm unleashed massive amounts of snow<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s storm blanketed the region with snow, canceled flights<\/a>, disrupted transit and downed power lines.<\/p>\n

Crunching the numbers, meteorologist Ryan Maue, former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, calculated that all that snow held a total of 2.5 trillion gallons of water.<\/p>\n

If all the snow that fell from Maryland to Maine fell just on Manhattan, it would have towered over a mile high. If the snowfall blanketed only on Rhode Island, which got hit hardest, it would bury the entire Ocean State in more than 92 feet of snow, The Associated Press estimated.<\/p>\n

Melted, it\u2019s enough to fill the Empire State Building with water more than 9,000 times. New York State got the water equivalent of 680 billion gallons, while Pennsylvania got 410 billion gallons and Massachusetts got 28 billion.<\/p>\n

When it eventually melts, it will help mitigate the drought affecting parts of the Northeast, Maue said, but right now it\u2019s adding misery to an already punishing season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this storm took a severe winter and turned it into an extreme winter or a record extreme winter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"APTOPIXPeople opt to walk in the middle of the street over snowy sidewalks after a snowstorm, on Tuesday, in South Boston.Sophie Park \/ AP<\/p>\n

In New York City, workers were setting up massive basins of warm water where large amounts of snow and ice will be dumped, acting Sanitation Commissioner Javier Lojan said. They helped melt 23 million pounds of snow during last month\u2019s storm.<\/p>\n

Snowbound Providence, Rhode Island, is trucking snow to five locations, and more dumping grounds may be added, according to Josh Estrella, communications director for the city government.<\/p>\n

Some schools are returning to normal<\/p>\n

Some large school districts moved back to in-person classes on Wednesday, including Philadelphia, which had switched to online learning during the first two days of the week. Schools reopened in Boston. They had been closed since last week for the winter vacation break. But in hardest-hit Rhode Island, Providence schools were closed for a third snow as the district moved into \u201cvirtual learning\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In New York City, it\u2019s another regular school day for more than 900,000 students in the nation\u2019s largest public school system, but many students and their caregivers had to scramble over mountainous snow banks and dodge salt spreaders during the morning drop-off.<\/p>\n

Thousands of flights in and out of the U.S. have been canceled in recent days. By Wednesday, the disruptions seemed to be subsiding, with nearly 200 grounded, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware<\/a>. Rhode Island\u2019s T.F. Green International Airport reopened Tuesday. Some flights departed Wednesday, while others were canceled.<\/p>\n

When Jamie Meyers\u2019 flight landed in New York from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday evening, the cabin full of relieved passengers burst into applause. The Manhattan resident was supposed to arrive home Sunday but faced a cancellation and significant delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 Power failures, waist-high canyons of snow and more flurries Wednesday bedeviled parts of the Northeast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-145395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}