New England Suffers Brunt of Nor'easter Blizzard
The highly-anticipated winter storm Juno that was expected to dump feet of snow in Pennsylvania and New York spared several northeastern states, with the brunt of its force going to Boston, Massachusetts and other coastal New England cities.
Travel bans that had been put into place in New York City were canceled after Tuesday brought surprisingly good weather conditions.
According to the Associated Press, coastal towns in Massachusetts, including Boston, suffered the worst of the storm as the fast-moving blizzard met with cold air over the Atlantic, causing winds as high as 78 miles per hour in Nantucket and other areas.
"It's part of living here," Steve Berlo, a resident of Scituate, Massachusetts, told the Associated Press. "When the water comes, you get out of the way, and when it goes, you see what it left you. Like we always say, five days a year it sucks to live here, but the rest of the year it's good."
New Jersey announced that it would be lifting all of its travel bans, including re-opening the Port Authority and running NJ Transit after the storm proved to be far more docile than expected.
"We did what we thought was best based on the predictions we were getting," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told CBS on Tuesday morning.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker also told reporters that the expected number of residents without power is lower than expected at 15,000 homes after Monday night's storm.
"The power outage numbers at this point are significantly below what we were anticipating, that's a good thing," Gov. Charlie Baker said during a morning news conference.