The mayor, Bill de Blasio, began his second full day in office by shoveling his own sidewalk in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He trudged out soon after sunrise and said that his teenage son, Dante, had lobbied for the day off from school. The mayor added that if a 16-year-old did not want a snow day, "there'd be something wrong with him."
The storm that hit New York City on Thursday was over by late Friday morning, moving on to New England. It played havoc with the rhythms and routines in a dozen states from Delaware to Maine. People commuted to work on cross-country skis in Manhattan, and parents pulled children on snow runners through Midtown streets on the way to Central Park.
The Associated Press attributed at least 13 deaths to the storm. Among them were a worker near Philadelphia who was crushed by a pile of road salt that cascaded on him, and a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease who wandered out of her home in western New York.
It was a deep-freeze day across the Northeast. The thermometer read 5 degrees in Boston at midmorning, 4 degrees colder than in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was 11 degrees in Central Park at the same time and never really warmed up. The temperature struggled past 11, then 12, then 13 degrees. The 6 p.m. reading was a bitter 15 degrees.
"What made this storm unique was the extremely cold air" that followed it, said Joe Pollina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y., on Long Island. Usually, he said, warmer air circling off the coast follows such a storm, but the Weather Service called for temperatures to fall again overnight, with a low of 5 degrees predicted for Central Park. With the wind chill, temperatures were expected at times to feel below zero.
There would be no thaw on Saturday. The Weather Service said the high in New York City would be only 28. Sunday promised to be appreciably warmer, with a high of 45.
In New York City, The A.P. reported, city outreach teams handled 76 reports about homeless people as the storm churned across the city on Thursday night and Friday morning.
As plows cleared the way and buses with chains clanked down glazed streets, there was a sense that the New York region had been spared the worst. "This wasn't really a biggie," said Stephen Fybish, an amateur weather sleuth who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The Weather Service said 6.4 inches fell in Central Park, 6.9 inches at La Guardia Airport, 7.9 inches at Kennedy International Airport and 8.5 inches at Newark Liberty International Airport. The numbers were higher in other places: 13.5 inches in Eastport, N.Y., and 12.5 inches in Bay Shore, N.Y., both in Suffolk County on Long Island; 12.4 inches in Oceanside, in Nassau County; 10.5 inches in South Ozone Park, Queens, and in Rye, N.Y.; 9 inches in Paramus, N.J., in Bridgehampton, N.Y., and in Guilford, Conn.
"This storm had the potential to be worse than it was," said Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive on Long Island, where the National Weather Service recorded as much as 13.5 inches.
His counterpart in Nassau County, Edward P. Mangano, echoed that idea. "We were prepared for a more intense blizzard," he said, "and we were fortunate that the weather event was less intense than forecast."
Still, the Long Island Expressway was blocked off at the Nassau County line at midnight Thursday on orders from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, avoiding a rerun of the snowy night 11 months ago when dozens of cars became stuck on the expressway and its exit ramps. It remained closed until about 9 a.m. as the storm swirled by. In the city, buses were operating, but there were delays.
In Massachusetts, nearly 2 feet of snow was reported in towns like Boxford and Topsfield, north of Boston. Flooding inundated some parts of the coast in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Reporting was contributed by Al Baker, Jess Bidgood, Michael M. Grynbaum, Andy Newman, Michael Schwirtz and Julie Turkewitz.
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