Massachusetts City Buried Under 34 Inches of Snow; More Snow On The Way For The Northeast
BURNETT: Tonight another storm, snow, wind and ice zeroing in on New England. The storm system, which is marching across the Midwest right now, has the potential to drop another half foot of snow in the northeast. We're going to have more on the forecast in a moment. It's bad timing for a region reeling. Today Boston, where we were last night, is just starting to dig out after a fierce blizzard brought record snowfall totals to the area. Some towns getting nearly 35 inches of snow. And tonight another major fear, no power for thousands of families as temperatures dip well below freezing. Look at that house, completely covered in ice. Alexandra Field is OUTFRONT live in Boston. Alex, when I left earlier this morning, you know, the plows were so hard at work trying to clear the snow. No one could get around in the city. Are they ready for another storm?</s>ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ready or not, Erin, they have got to prepare for it. And they literally have just so much to deal with. We heard from the mayor earlier today. He says that he's confident that the roads are looking good, that school buses would be safe out on those roads tomorrow. But he has in fact now taken another step to cancel schools here in Boston tomorrow saying that the sidewalks aren't quite ready yet. The city still needs a little more time to do some of this cleanup.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You're sure there's a car under there?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We're sure there's a car.</s>FIELD (voice-over): Some storms break records.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I haven't seen snow like this since '78. Since the blizzard of '78.</s>FIELD: Some storms break hearts.</s>UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It's very surreal. The whole thing</s>UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I am so grateful that we were here. I can't imagine waking up in the dark.</s>FIELD: Chris Carroll's beach front house in Scituate south of Boston trashed during violent winds and high tide. (on camera): This is exactly the moment that people here in Scituate have been bracing for. Here it is. This water coming up right over the sea wall. (voice-over): A whole neighborhood suddenly under water.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The water was moving so fast that we had waves from the backyard. (on camera): Have you ever seen something like that, waves actually in the backyard?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Never.</s>FIELD (voice-over): The brutal storm buried Maine, Connecticut and Long Island. In Boston, snow totals missed the city's record mark: 24.6 inches made it the sixth snowiest storm in the city's history.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one is pretty brutal. I mean, the cars behind you, you can't even see the tops of them.</s>FIELD: With more snow in the forecast, they're trying to clean up quickly. The city's iconic marathon finish line cleared off by a neighborhood bartender. In Scituate, Chris Carroll is trying to keep things in perspective.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am so grateful that we weren't here.</s>FIELD: Because some storms break sea walls, but they rarely break spirits.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am breathing and going one minute at a time. It's -- I can't think about what is coming tomorrow.</s>FIELD: All right. If you live in Boston, you've got to have a good attitude toward snow. A lot of people do but those attitudes were certainly tested over the last couple of days. We're looking back over some of the math now. The snow started in Boston at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. It didn't stop until 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday. People basically dealt with 42 hours of snow. There was just one hour, 3:00 on Monday, when there was no recorded snowfall, Erin.</s>BURNETT: That is pretty stunning, 42 hours. There is no place -- Boston is certainly not used to that. All right. Thank you. Just about an hour west of Boston, the city of Worcester, is digging out from a record. They got 34 inches of snow, just about three feet. That's where Brian Todd is OUTFRONT live tonight. And, Brian, talk about a cleanup.</s>BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Talk about a cleanup, Erin, and look at what I'm standing on. This is what they're going to have to clean up. Check this out -- this is a massive snow pile in downtown Worcester, Mass</s>BURNETT: The mount was pretty stunning. When you started the camera was very tight on you. And I did not know, it just look like you were standing on the ground. And then, all of a sudden, there you were, the king of the snow mount. But you taught me a new word, snow farms. I didn't know such a thing existed. And I know before you came to Worcester, you were along the coast. Some people there really tragic, they lost everything. You look at those houses that were encased in ice. I mean, people's lives have been changed, people have lost everything. What did they say to you?</s>TODD: Yes, we were in a town called Marshfield, Massachusetts, that's just adjacent to the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, where our colleague, Alexandra Field, was. In both of those towns, they had sea walls that were breached by these really powerful storm surges. In Marshfield where we were, there was a breach of the sea wall in two different places. In one of those places, a guy named Tim Mannix has a house right here, his house got completely destroyed, completely flooded. He got hit with flying glass and his house was so flooded that he had to be evacuated with rescue teams using a front-end loader to get into his house. He has 70 stitches when he came out of it. I asked him, you know, what's going on now, do you really want to come back here? Take a listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, no. This is probably it. Sell the property and get out. I just have no answers to my future right now. I've got a pretty bleak future today, tomorrow and the next day. So, we'll see what happens. I'm trying to laugh it off, you know. Think about tomorrow and not yesterday, OK?</s>TODD: He got a little emotional there, but Tim is going to press on because he basically has to press on with his livelihood somewhere along the coastline of Massachusetts. He makes his living as a commercial fisherman -- Erin.</s>BURNETT: And, Brian, just one thing I have to ask you. When you talk about those snow farms and the mounds, I'm curious, you know, what do they do when they have temperatures like you're talking about, subzero wind-chill for days and days, another storm coming? It's not going to melt. So what do they do as the piles just get bigger and bigger?</s>TODD: Well, witnessing this in Buffalo, they try to find some kind of a depot, some kind of a parking lot. And in Buffalo, they used an abandoned train station, so they can use places that are abandoned that have just a huge wide open space. They bring in dump truck after dump truck after dump truck and they pick the stuff up and just carry it there and dump it there. You're right. It won't melt any time soon. But even if it doesn't, if you've got a place like that that's not commonly used by a lot of people, like an abandoned space, you're OK, you can leave it there.</s>BURNETT: All right. Brian Todd, thank you so much. As you said, live from Worcester, where they had a record 34 inches. And as I mentioned, a new storm system is on the way. That could mean more snow, more frigid temperatures for the Northeast. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray is OUTFRONT. She's in Boston. And, Jennifer, what is this storm going to look like that's coming now, the double whammy?</s>JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, nothing at all like what this past storm looked like. This one dumped about 24 inches of snow, over 30 inches in some areas. The next storm system you could get anywhere from an inch or two of snow, which is barely anything for Boston standards, to up to four or five inches. So, there is a possibility we could get another plowable snow but it's not going to be like the same snow event we just saw. Of course, the problem is, some of those secondary streets aren't quite clear. A lot of people are still digging their cars out from under the snow. So, it's almost a race against time to get those cars cleared out before the next snow comes. So, let's time this thing out. It is going to come up the mid- Atlantic and then impact Boston, say, Thursday night into Friday morning we could get a little bit of snow. But then Friday night into Saturday morning, we could get a couple of inches. Now, exact amounts is hard to say, the models still disagreeing a little bit. But like I said, anywhere from 1 to 2 inches to worst case scenario 4 or 5 inches. Erin, it looks like we'll see another system possibly on Monday, still a lot of uncertainty in that one. Of course temperatures, like you said, are going to stay very, very cold.</s>BURNETT: So, two more storms coming on the heel of that. All right, Jennifer Gray. And to our viewers, welcome to the new world where you've got to hear about all the different models out there, because, you know, one might say no snow and one might say 30 inches. And everybody's got to be right. OUTFRONT next, the ISIS video starkly different from any we've seen before. We're going to show why -- why it's so different and why it matters so much. And with "American Sniper", the runaway leader at the box office, we have a report showing how real snipers are trained. We actually went to the range to show you how they train an American sniper and how those snipers feel about their job.