BOSTON — Winter-weary New England saw more snow flurries on Saturday and braced for several days of heavy snowfall.
By Monday night, 12 to 18 inches of fresh snow could be on the ground in parts of the region, which is still coping with the aftereffects of storms that hit over the last couple of weeks and dumped record-high snowfall totals in some places.
Boston's transit system, the nation's oldest, has been particularly hard hit. The buildup of snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging equipment has stalled trains in recent days, delaying and angering commuters.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Beverly Scott said Saturday that crews were doing everything they could, including deploying massive jet-powered snow blowers (borrowed from New York), to clear tracks before the next storm.
In many New England communities, the obvious problem is where to put the next batch of snow.
In Revere, just outside Boston, schoolteacher Ingrid Samuel said there were "mountains of snow" and the streets "can't take another hit of snow on top of what's here."
"There's a bunch of snow everywhere, and there's no more place to put it," said Samuel, who lost a week of work after the last snowstorm canceled classes. "There are no sidewalks left in Revere.
Adding injury to insult perhaps, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warned that potentially record cold temperatures and wind chills are expected to move into the region later in the week after the storm. The first above freezing temperatures are forecast for February 25th.
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