Overview
- Roughly 150,000 customers in Massachusetts were still without power Wednesday, concentrated on Cape Cod, with utilities targeting majority restoration by Friday evening.
- Boston reopened schools and restored most transit, but several southeastern districts including Barnstable, Plymouth, Fall River and Mashpee will stay closed through the week due to outages, blocked roads and heavy snow loads.
- Light additional snow of 1–3 inches brought refreeze and black‑ice risks across the region, though flight disruptions eased to a few hundred cancellations and major rail services resumed.
- Cities scaled up cleanup with mutual aid: New York sent snow‑removal equipment to Massachusetts, National Guard teams assisted with shoveling and route clearance, and NYC deployed 3,500 emergency shovelers and 143 million pounds of salt.
- The late‑winter nor’easter set records from Maryland to Maine, including more than three feet in Rhode Island, and authorities confirmed a carbon monoxide death in Newport as accessibility and sidewalk clearance remained pressing safety concerns.