A record-breaking winter storm pounded the northeastern U.S. yesterday, with hurricane-force winds, high water, and more than 3 feet of snow in some places. Travel bans were in effect, hundreds of thousands lost power, and at least nine are reported to have been killed. As New Englanders dig out and watch for potential flooding, here is a collection of photos of the wide-reaching effects of this monster blizzard.
Northeast Slammed by Blizzard
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Ice clings to Ken Anderson's eyebrows and mustache as he uses a snowblower during a blizzard, on February 9, 2013, in Portland, Maine. The storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon, breaking the local record for the biggest storm. #
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This image released by NASA from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured at 9:01 a.m. on Friday, February 8, 2013 shows a massive winter storm coming together as two low pressure systems merge over the northeast U.S. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday. #
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Cars drive across the nearly empty Zakim Bridge prior to a mandatory statewide driving ban in Boston, on February 8, 2013. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency Friday and banned travel on roads as of 4 p.m. as a blizzard began to intensify. #
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A woman walks along a snow-covered trail in Central Park on February 9, 2013 in New York City. The park received almost a foot of snow, as New York was spared the worst of the massive snow storm that hit the U.S. Northeast. #
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The ocean overflows the sea wall on Winthrop Shore Drive in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on February 9, 2013. An overnight blizzard left one to two feet of snow in areas, and coastal flooding is expected as the storm lingers into the day. #
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Homeowner Paul Descateaux, left, stands by as firefighters enter his home after Descateaux smelled smoke after his home was flooded by the ocean, on February 9, 2013, in Salisbury, Massachusetts. #
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With tears in her eyes, Priscilla Arena, 41, from Mount Sinai, New York, reads letters she wrote to her two children as she spent the night in her car on North Ocean Avenue in Farmingville after the car got stuck in the snow while she was traveling home after work during yesterday's snow storm. Arena was at the Brookhaven Town Hall after being rescued by a N.Y. State Trooper on February 9, 2013. #
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Claire Stout, 12, burrows into a pile of plowed snow near her home in Maplewood, New Jersey, on February 9, 2013. The Northeast storm dumped over a foot of snow in northern N.J. #
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A man shovels snow off his car on M street in the South Boston neighborhood, on February 9, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left the New York-to-Boston corridor shrouded in 1 to 3 feet of snow Saturday, stranding motorists on highways overnight and piling up drifts so high that some homeowners couldn't get their doors open. #
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Johnson & Wales students climb a large pile of snow that was cleared from downtown Providence, Rhode Island, after a winter storm dumped around two feet of snow in the area, on February 9, 2013. #
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A couple walks past a large snow drift in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine, on February 9, 2013. Officials are cautioning residents to stay off the roads in Maine, where Portland set an all-time snowfall record. #
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