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The blizzard of 2015 blasted the region with wind-whipped snow that piled nearly 3-feet high in some places.
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A lone pedestrian makes his way up Seaport Blvd in downtown Boston. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)
Amy Grace, 10, played on a mountain of snow on Tremont Street in the South End. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)
The Victory Baptist Church in Brant Rock looked like the Mt Washington Observatory as another band of heavy snow hit the area. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe)
A family plays in the snow in Copley Square during the blizzard on Jan. 27, 2015 in Boston. (Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images)
Snow fell against a darkening sky as high tide comes in on Plum Island. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe)
Erick Khanau clears the sidewalk in front of his store, Harbor View Wine and Spirit on Main Ave in Norwalk Conn. on Jan. 27. A major winter storm dropped a foot of snow or more over much of Connecticut, hitting hardest in the eastern part of the state. (Alex von Kleydorff/The Hour via Associated Press)
Cathleen Cahill made her way through deep and drifting snow while walking her dog Chikita in downtown Rockport. (John Blanding/The Boston Globe)
Aiden Birchell,(left) ran through flooded Ocean Street to help a resident evacuate his oceanfront home in Brant Rock at the 5pm high tide. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe)
Downed power lines along the roadway in Scituate. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe)
Homes along the shore of Brant Rock were destroyed by the force of the ocean during the blizzard. Resident Simon Adkins from Marshfield braved the wind to survey the damage. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe)
Michelle Suh, (left,) the owner of Kaju Tofu House in Allston, and her boyfriend Ailton Moreira, shoveled the walk in front of Suh’s restaurant with what they had on hand - one shovel and a baking pan. (Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe)
Nicole Acevedo clears snow from her vehicle on Herzel Blvd. in West Babylon, N.Y. A winter storm dumped several inches of snow in the New York area. (Steve Pfost/Newsday via Associated Press)
Emma Landry, 6, got a tow from her yellow lab, Sam, on Babcock Street in Brookline. (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe)
Adults and children sled at Brooklyn's Prospect Park the morning after a major winter storm on Jan. 27 in New York City. Despite dire predictions, New York City was spared the worst of the storm, receiving up to a foot of snow in some areas. Subway buses were closed overnight while roadways were open only to emergency vehicles. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A stranded air traveler slept with his luggage in the main domestic terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 27. Airlines canceled thousands of flights due to the blizzard in the northeastern United States. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA)
Adam Keene, 7, of Lexington, offered his dog, Astro, a kissduring the blizzard Tuesday morning. (Joanne Rathe/The Boston Globe)
Whiteout conditions courtesy of a snowblower and the driving snow in Squantum. ( Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe)
New Bedford firefighter Lt. Eric Hartford tried to dig out an ambulance carrying a patient to St. Lukes Hospital in New Bedford. (Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via Associated Press)
A man and boy ride a sled down Cedar Hill in Central Park following Winter Storm Juno in the Manhattan borough of New York on Jan. 27. A blizzard swept across the northeastern United States, dropping more than a foot (30 cm) of snow but falling short of more dire predictions that sent workers and students home, halted thousands of flights and prompted New York officials to ban cars from roads and shut down subway trains. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
Jamina Goop of Liechtenstein did a handstand as she was photographed by a friend the storm in Times Square, New York City. (Adress Latif/Reuters)
Fishing boats rode out the storm at dock in Scituate, Mass., on Jan. 27. The winter storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (Michael Dwyer/Associated Press)
A lone car traveled westbound on the Long Island Expressway after it was reopened on Jan. 27 in Melville, N.Y. The Expressway and other roads were closed after a blizzard hit the New York area overnight. (Kathy Kmonicek/Associated Press)
A pedestrian crossed an empty snow-covered street on in New York during a city-wide ban on non-emergency vehicles. Tens of millions of people along the East Coast hunkered down for a storm that for most failed to live up to predictions that it would be one of the worst they'd ever seen. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)
Pedestrians made their way through driving snow in midtown Manhattan. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
Noah Bicchieri, 29, leaned against the wall as he walked between his house and his neighbor’s house with his dog, Caruso, in Plum Island. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe)