Smithfield, Rhode Island, had 14 inches of snow by 9 p.m.

CNN: 1 dead, 600,000 without power from ongoing blizzard

The Colorado capital had already gotten over 8 inches of snow by 5:30 p.m.

CNN: Blizzard buries Denver, barrels east to Plains

Two of Frankfurt's four runways reopened for takeoff and landing as of 5 p.m. local time, Holschier said, but snow continues to fall.

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In the dark, Simon Alcarac was shoveling snow, trying to meet Milwaukee's 11 p.m. deadline to move his car to a nearby elementary school parking lot or face a hefty tow bill from the city.

CNN: Drawn-out snowstorm lingers in Maine, New Hampshire

The only serious accident I've had in my life didn't involve a distraction at all, but a patch of unexpected black ice and a sudden crosswind that sent me fishtailing at 70 m.p.h. off the interstate into an Iowa ditch filled, thankfully, with two feet of snow.

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But as most of the heavy snow tapered off, a travel ban across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts was lifted at 4 p.m.

CNN: Northeast digs out after deadly blizzard

"By all accounts, we are expecting a serious weather event, " he said, adding that the storm was likely to start as a light snow on Friday morning and become heavier as the day goes on, with the worst coming between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

WSJ: Northeast Braces for Major Blizzard