March Roars In

Violleta Tyrrell, 73, left, steps aside for pedestrians as she removes snow from the sidewalk of her home and that of her elderly neighbor in Brooklyn, New York, Monday, March 2, 2009.

MTA employees work in the blowing snow to keep subway tracks clear in New York, Monday, March 2, 2009.

Interstate 85 was a parking lot in Charlotte, N.C., early Monday, March 2, 2009, after a rare March snowstorm that blanketed the region, closing schools, causing traffic accidents and knocking out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes.

A bundled commuter walks through the snow during a winter storm in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2009.

A man makes his way down a street in the early morning in New York, Monday, March 2, 2009. An army of snowplows and salt trucks were out in force Monday as New Yorkers woke up to a late winter snowstorm that was expected to blanket the metro region with up to a foot of snow.

Owen Burke, left, and Ephrata Wood, hold on to a tarp to drape around a stage they are installing during a windy snow storm outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Monday, March 2, 2009. The men were installing the stage for a global warming rally of college students happening later in the day.

An Annapolis city worker removes snow around the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley memorial statue in the City Dock area of Annapolis, Md., Monday, March 2, 2009, as a snow storm moved up the East Coast.

A commuter walks by the New York Stock Exchange Monday morning, March 2, 2009. A massive late winter snow storm roared out of the Southeast and into the Northeast, idling hundreds of flights and making Monday's commute treacherous as motorists contend with what could end up being more than a foot of snow in spots.

People pass in the shadow of a bridge during a snow storm in Philadelphia, Monday, March 2, 2009. Winter storm warnings were issued from North Carolina to New Hampshire, with most areas expected to see 8 to 12 inches of snow and higher amounts possible in northern areas.

A person walks a dog in the early morning light in Prospect Park during a winter storm in the borough of Brooklyn in New York, Monday, March 2, 2009.

The White House grounds are covered in snow, Monday, March 2, 2009, as a snow storm moves up the East Coast.

After clearing snow, a workman walks up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Monday, March 2, 2009.

Visitors walk around the White House grounds in the blowing snow, Monday, March 2, 2009, as a heavy snow storm moves up the East Coast.

A squirrel enjoys an early morning snack from a bird feeder during a snow storm in East Windsor, Conn., March 2, 2009.

Todd Warren, visiting from Buffalo, N.Y., walks through snow that hit Atlanta to his car after learning the 25th Annual Hunger Walk/Run event had been canceled because of the weather on Sunday, March 1, 2009.

A car is seen on the side of the road after it hit a telephone pole during a snowy Sunday night March 1, 2009, in Charlotte, N.C. A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of the Southeast with snow Sunday before barreling toward the Northeast, where officials prepared snowplows and road-salt for a wintry assault.

Snow falls on a metal cutout silhouette of Martin Luther King, Jr., near the Presidential Parkway in Atlanta on Sunday March 1, 2009.

Pedestrians walk along Centennial Olympic Park Drive at Centennial Park on Sunday, March 1, 2009, as snow hit the metro Atlanta area.

A cardinal sits among the branches of a wisteria vine on the morning of Sunday, March 1, 2009 in Starkville, Miss., after snow fell during the night.

An early March snowstorm dumped inches of snow across Alabama, including this red barn on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., Sunday, March 1, 2009.

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