BOSTON — Boston bounced back quickly Wednesday from the Blizzard of 2015, with subways, buses and trains up and running again the morning after the storm buried a swath of New England in 2 to 3 feet of snow.
Many businesses reopened, as did Logan Airport, and homeowners, motorists and storekeepers dug out with grudging praise for the forecasters, who missed the mark in New York but got it right in New England.
Chris Laudani, a Boston bartender, became an instant symbol of the city’s resilience when he shoveled snow off the yellow and blue Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, where the 2013 terrorist bombing killed three people and wounded more than 260.
Meteorologists had warned that Boston would get more than 2 feet of snow by Tuesday night, and the National Weather Service said the city ended up with 24.4 inches, the sixth-highest total on record. Other areas received about 2 to 3 feet, pretty much as predicted.
“They actually got it right,” James Hansen said as he cleared a Boston sidewalk.
As the storm gathered earlier in the week, forecasters had warned that Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey could get 1 to 2 feet of snow. In the end, they didn’t see a foot.
With snow removal in Boston well underway, commuters high-stepped their way through a warren of snowy paths and towering snowbanks. Bitter cold threatened to complicate efforts to clear clogged streets and restore power. Forecasters warned that it won’t get above freezing in Boston for a week, and several more inches of snow are expected Friday and again over the weekend.
Around Massachusetts, Worcester got 33.5 inches — the highest amount recorded since 1905 — and Auburn and Lunenburg each reported 36 inches.
Parts of the New Hampshire coastline got 31 inches. Providence, R.I., received about 19 inches. Thirty-one inches piled up in Sanford, Maine, and 33.5 inches in Thompson, Conn. Orient, on the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, got about 30 inches.
