Photos: Nor’easter blizzard pummels the East Coast with wind and snow

Dale McElwee clears his Inexperienced Avenue, North Attleboro, Mass. property of snow on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (Mark Stockwell/The Solar Chronicle by way of AP)

A vicious nor’easter dumped snow and introduced gusty winds from Virginia to Maine on Saturday.

Components of 10 states have been beneath blizzard warnings: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, together with a lot of the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

The storm precipitated coastal flooding and widespread energy outages as some locations received over two ft of snow and winds gusted as excessive as 83 mph on Cape Cod. Over 1,000 flights have been canceled.

Winds that had gusted to greater than 80 mph on Saturday died down on Sunday, and temperatures climbed into the higher teenagers and 20s as folks emerged from their houses to dig out.

A employee shovels a sidewalk downtown in Windfall, R.I., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/David Goldman) 

Xavier Martinez scrapes snow off his windshield throughout a storm in Windfall, R.I., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/David Goldman) 

A Wheaton Faculty pupil makes their method throughout the Norton, Mass. snowy campus Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Gusty winds and falling temperatures plunged the East Coast right into a deep freeze as folks dig out from a robust nor’easter that dumped mounds of snow, flooded coastlines and knocked energy out. (Mark Stockwell/The Solar Chronicle by way of AP) 

Lamont Bryant, a former NFL participant with the Carolina Panthers and the Tennessee Titans, heaves snow from round his automotive on Mechanic Avenue in Attleboro, Mass., on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Bryant, initially from Miami just lately moved to Attleboro and stated that that is his very first introduction to snow. Gusty winds and falling temperatures plunged the East Coast right into a deep freeze as folks dig out from a robust nor’easter that dumped mounds of snow, flooded coastlines and knocked energy out. (Mark Stockwell/The Solar Chronicle by way of AP) 

An individual cross-country skis by means of New York’s Occasions Sq. throughout a snowstorm, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/Mary Altaffer) 

Snowflakes sit on the eyelash of Chris Andrade as he clears snow from a sidewalk in Windfall, R.I., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A nor’easter with hurricane-force wind gusts battered a lot of the East Coast on Saturday, flinging heavy snow that made journey treacherous or inconceivable, flooding coastlines and threatening to depart bitter chilly in its wake. (AP Photograph/David Goldman) 

Bradley Winn, of Cohasset, Mass., carries a snow shovel previous a snowbank on a sidewalk, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Scituate, Mass. Gusty winds and falling temperatures plunged the East Coast right into a deep freeze as folks dig out from a robust nor’easter that dumped mounds of snow, flooded coastlines and knocked energy out. (AP Photograph/Steven Senne) 

Folks take their canine out at Washington Sq. Park throughout a snowstorm on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in New York. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/Brittainy Newman) 

Melisssa Pomerleau, of Portland, Maine, who's a nurse working in Cambridge, Mass., shovels out her automotive throughout a storm that was projected to deliver as much as two ft of snow to the area, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/Josh Reynolds) 

A canine is adopted by a pair as they stroll on the snow-covered boardwalk, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Ocean Metropolis, Md. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/Julio Cortez) 

Wilson Anibal Mejia walks by means of the snow to get to work at a restaurant in Windfall, R.I., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/David Goldman) 

A person jogs down the Brooklyn Bridge throughout a snowstorm on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in New York. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (AP Photograph/Brittainy Newman) 

A person takes a stroll close to the widespread in Foxborough, Mass. in close to white-out circumstances Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. A robust nor’easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury elements of 10 states beneath deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and excessive winds that would lower energy and depart folks shivering within the chilly climate anticipated to comply with. (Mark Stockwell/The Solar Chronicle by way of AP)