Municipal workers from New York to Boston labored through the night Saturday in snow-bound communities, where some motorists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow.
New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg can take comfort in knowing many other mayors are dealing with their own snowpocalypses, street-plowing scandals and angry, snow-bound residents.
The story is about a mysterious man named Smelty John, who is the only one to notice a certain beauty that wafts across the ocean, over the mountains and though snow-bound fields toward him.