AT LEAST eight people died in the massive snowstorm that swept through the US north east and Canada.
About 510,000 homes and businesses remained without power late last night, down from a total of about 650,000.
Roads across the New York-to-Boston corridor of roughly 25 million people were impassable.
Cars were entombed by drifts and some people found the wet, heavy snow packed so high against their homes they could not get their doors open.
There was three feet of snow across much of the region, and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York’s Long Island.
At least five deaths in the US were blamed on the snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was overcome by carbon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shovelled snow.
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A man walks his dog past the snow covered "Boy and Bird" fountain in the Boston Public Garden in Boston
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Lauren Rae Levy, of Manhattan, stands outside the Metropolitan Opera House in the snow at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week
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Snow falls on a pedestrian as she leaves the Rag & Bone Fall 2013 fashion collection show during Fashion Week in New York
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Juan Tavares carries his bike rather than risk riding on a snow-covered street during a blizzard in Portland, Maine
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Robert Burck, aka the "Naked Cowboy," performs in Times Square as snow begins to fall in New York
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A man shovels snow off his car in front of his home on East Third street in Boston, after a howling storm dumped three feet of snow across the area
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A runner runs in the snow in the park along Commonwealth Ave in Boston
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Wet snow coats houses along the South River at high tide in the Humarock coastal neighborhood of Scituate, Massachusetts
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Tow truck operator Shawn Juhre sets up road safety reflectors before towing a car out of a ditch during a winter snow storm in Buffalo, New York
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Nicole Lacoursiere of North Andover, Massachusetts, falls back to make a snow angel after 24 inches of snow fell in her yard.
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Danielle Kondratuk walks her dog Bella as snow falls in Manchester, Connecticut
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trains sit idle due to high winds and the nearly two-feet of snow that fell in the area overnight
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Pedestrians walk through Times Square as snow begins to fall in New York
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With snow accumulating on Route 93, cars head toward the New Hampshire border prior to a mandatory Massachusetts statewide driving ban
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This NOAA satellite image shows a prominent winter storm over the Northeast US with some high winds and heavy snows
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Grounds crews prepare a plane for flight at LaGuardia Airport in New York as heavy snow was expected to fall across the state
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Louie Rodriguez of the New Bedford Forestry Department cuts a fallen tree at the intersection of Rotch St. and Maple St. in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Grounds crews prepare a plane for flight in New York as heavy snow was expected to fall across the state
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A pedestrian walks along a snowy path in Central Park in New York as heavy snow began falling across the Northeast
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Jack Percoco of Cambridge reaches into near empty shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville, Massachusetts as the blizzard begins to bear down on the state
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Mike Williams and Louie Rodriguez of the New Bedford Forestry Department clear out a fallen tree from an intersection in New Bedford
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A group of men help push a sports car up a snow-covered street in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine
There were also three deaths in Canada.
In southern Ontario, an 80-year-old woman collapsed while shovelling snow from her driveway, and two men were killed in car crashes.
One pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed Friday night in Connecticut, and a 23-year-old New York man ploughing his driveway with a tractor went off the edge of the road and was killed.
Blowing with hurricane-force winds of more than 80 mph in places, the storm hit hard along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between New York City and Maine.
Milford, Connecticut, got 38 inches of snow, and Portland, Maine, recorded 31.9 inches, shattering a 1979 record.
The storm was not as bad as the Blizzard of ’78, used by long-time New Englanders as the benchmark by which all other winter storms are measured.
