Blizzard slams Boston - in pictures

A snow shoveller tries to clear a spot in the middle of a city street beside snow-covered vehicles during the winter snowstorm in Boston. AP Photo/Steven Senne

Snow piles up at the entrance of a closed subway station during the blizzard on January 27, 2015. All public transportation was shut down for the day. Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images/AFP

Some people took advantage of the snowstorm travel ban to have fun – Bianca Hillier, left, of Columbus, Ohio, and Eloise Pollard of London make snow angels on a normally busy stretch of Manhattan’s Tenth Avenue at West 34th Street in New York. AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz

A damaged house sits along the coast in the Brant Rock section of Marshfield, Massachusetts, during the winter snowstorm. AP Photo/The Quincy Patriot Ledger, Greg Derr

A man emerges from the snow beyond a pine twisted from heavy winds near Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. AP Photo/The Quincy Patriot Ledger, Gary Higgins

Frosted homes battered by wind in Massachusetts. AP Photo/The Quincy Patriot Ledger, Gary Higgins

Students lay out in their bathing suits on the Quad, on the campus of Harvard University on January 27, 2015 as Boston, and much of the Northeast, was hit with heavy snow from Winter Storm Juno. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images/AFP

Commuters board a train near the departures board at Penn Station in New York on January 27, 2015. Amtrak cancelled all trains to Boston for the day and ran a modified schedule between New York and Washington DC following a night of snowfall in the north-east region. Andrew Kelly/EPA

Firefighters stand in a damaged house along the coast in the Brant Rock section of Marshfield, Massachusetts, during a winter snowstorm Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/The Quincy Patriot Ledger, Greg Derr

Snow covers the benches in Copley Square as the blizzard continues in Boston, Massachusetts. Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images/AFP

Streets and sidewalks are seen covered in snow as winter storm Juno continues to move through Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Snow will fall across eastern Massachusetts for the next several hours as the blizzard that missed New York buries much of New England, shutting down transportation and knocking out power to thousands of consumers and to Entergy Corp.'s Pilgrim nuclear plant. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg

Newspaper dispensers stand covered in snow on Charles Street as winter storm Juno continues to move through Boston, Massachusetts. Scott Eisen/Bloomberg

A man uses a snowblower to try and dig out a buried car several hours into the blizzard which struck the Northeastern US in Franklin, Massachusetts. Matt Campbell/EPA

A snowboarder walks down snow covered Pinckney Street as winter storm Juno continues to move through the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Boston. Bloomberg/ Scott Eisen

A snowboarder jumps over a friend at Boston Common during winter storm Juno. Bloomberg/ Scott Eisen

Boston is bracing for record snowfall as snow is forecast to continue pounding eastern New England on Wednesday. A powerful blizzard struck Boston and surrounding New England on Tuesday, leaving some 4.5 million people grappling with as much as three feet of snow and coastal flooding. New York City, which had also braced for a significant blast, was largely spared. Reuters