BOSTON — Boston scrambled to dig out Monday from the second major winter storm in a week and delayed a celebratory Super Bowl parade, and forecasters from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, warned that “flash freezing” could make roads dangerously slippery.
Officials said a Massachusetts woman was run over and killed by a snowplow, and New York state police said two people were killed in a multivehicle crash on an interstate in Rye.
The snowstorm, which dumped more than 19 inches of snow on Chicago, deepened off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations of 9 to 16 inches to Boston and up to a foot of slushy wintry mix to Hartford, Conn.; Providence, R.I.; southern New Hampshire; and Vermont — places still reeling from the up to 3 feet they got last week.
“For New Englanders, we’re used to this during the winter,” said Matt Doody of the National Weather Service.
More than 20 counties in New York were under a winter storm warning, with up to 16 inches forecast for the eastern Catskill Mountains and northern and central Taconics. Many Long Island schools delayed opening or closed because of a forecast of snow and freezing rain. By early afternoon, central Massachusetts had more than a foot.
The Philadelphia area received about an inch of snow before the precipitation changed to rain. Forecasters expected 3 to 5 inches to fall in the Lehigh Valley, and 5 to 11 inches in northern Pennsylvania. Parts of northern Ohio got at least a foot.
A deadly toll
Fifty-seven-year-old Cynthia Levine was struck and killed by a snowplow just before 10 a.m. Monday in the parking lot of a condominium complex in Weymouth, south of Boston, the Norfolk district attorney’s office said.
Officials in Ohio, where the storm hit before slamming into the Northeast, said a Toledo police officer died while shoveling snow in his driveway Sunday and the city’s 70-year-old mayor was hospitalized after an accident while he was out checking road conditions. The officer, who was not named, died of an apparent heart attack. City and medical officials say Mayor D. Michael Collins was hospitalized after he had a heart attack and his SUV crashed into a pole.
Commuting problems
Rush-hour commuters in New York City were stranded on a packed subway train that lost power for 2½ hours Monday before it could be towed to a station. Five other trains were stuck behind it.
In Henniker, N.H., crews were cleaning up snow using plows loaned by the state and surrounding towns. A fire destroyed the town’s plow fleet three days earlier.
Disorder in the court
The storm delayed two of the nation’s biggest court cases — the murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and jury selection in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Testimony was to resume Tuesday in the Hernandez trial. But federal court officials in Boston, who follow the city’s school closure schedule, said the Tsarnaev proceedings would be delayed a second day.
