Snowbound vehicles remain stranded Saturday morning, Feb. 9, 2013 along Route 347 in Lake Grove, N.Y. Hundreds of cars were stranded on New Yorks Long Island roadways as snow rapidly covered roadways. Many people abandoned their vehicles and first responders rescued motorists who chose to spend the frigid night in their vehicles. (AP Photo/Newsday, John Paraskevas)
April Palmieri digs out her car in front of her home, background left, on 17th Street after a snow storm on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 in Bayville, N.Y. Palmieri had five feet of water in her basement as result of the rains from Superstorm Sandy. 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. More than 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
Shop owners clear the sidewalk in front of their stores on Main St. in Irvington, N.Y., Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The year's first major winter storm dumped up to 21 inches on the Lower Hudson Valley. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Seth Harrison) NYC OUT, NO SALES, ONLINE OUT, TV OUT, NEWSDAY INTERNET OUT; MAGS OUT
Payloaders clear snow from the Long Island Expressway just west of exit 59 Ocean Ave where several cars and a truck are abandoned after a snow storm on Saturday, Feb. 9, 31, 2013, in Ronkonkoma , N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
Workers at a car dealership on Route 6 in Carmel, N.Y. clean snow from the cars in their lot, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The year's first major winter storm dumped up to 21 inches on the Lower Hudson Valley. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.) NYC OUT, NO SALES, ONLINE OUT, TV OUT, NEWSDAY INTERNET OUT; MAGS OUT
Elder Fernandez shovels a sidewalk along Bedford Road in Katonah, N.Y., Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The year's first major winter storm dumped up to 21 inches on the Lower Hudson Valley. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.) NYC OUT, NO SALES, ONLINE OUT, TV OUT, NEWSDAY INTERNET OUT; MAGS OUT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York’s Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast. …
