If he could clear snow off New York's streets, he could be mayor for life.
Further on, I find 75-year-old Yae Nomura and her husband shovelling snow off their roof.
Commuter rail service remains suspended for the day, however, as crews cleared snow off the tracks.
"Consumers, many of them still shoveling snow off their sidewalks, are not yet feeling compelled to go shopping for spring clothes, " says NRF President and CEO Tracy Mullin.
From the top looking down, we could see that the wind had blown all the snow off the face of the bowl, leaving it hard-packed, icy and very steep.
When the man opened the door, he found the Neil Kane, 49, doing paperwork while he waited for the BMW to warm up before scraping the snow off it.
Nina Walker, of Woburn in suburban Boston, said she had to shovel about 8 inches of snow off her driveway before driving to Boston's South Station to take a train to New York.
"I am worried about flooding my home with all those piles there, " said Mr. Steiner, 59, an environmental consultant who estimates he has shoveled 150 tons of snow off his roof and driveway since last fall.
In hard-hit Kansas, there were at least six storm-related deaths: two siblings who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator, three people in fatal vehicle accidents and an elderly woman who died of hypothermia sweeping snow off her steps, Gov. Sam Brownback said.
In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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Also, snow blowing off fields in strong-to-gale-force winds will affect some roads, especially over high ground, according to the Met Office.
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Snow brushed off the negative polls and pointed to strong consumer and businesses spending as tangible signs of confidence in the economy.
But as most of the heavy snow tapered off, a travel ban across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts was lifted at 4 p.m.
This includes a rigorous de-icing process for aircraft and runways as well as a fleet of giant plows that follow the TV 2000 to clear the snow blown off runways.
Whiteout conditions caused by snow arriving off Lake Erie caused at least three more pileups -- one involving 52 cars, another with 25 vehicles, and a third, in which 23 motorists collided.
The Met Office said a yellow warning for severe weather remained in place but the snow would ease off throughout the day.
After hours of work by the grounds crew to prepare the field following three days of on-and-off snow, the ballpark was ready to use by the afternoon.
Her snow boots kicked off, the petite 33-year-old expert on the Internet and youth is wearing a loose tan sweater, dangly silver jewelry and a trademark fuzzy hat that resembles the ears of a white Pomeranian puppy.
Dr Reaney said that in urban areas, where melted snow runs directly off roads and pavements into drains, snowmen would make more of a difference than in fields where it would take longer for the water to filter into watercourses.
Workers hosed off the snow on the stand of evergreen trees beyond the center-field wall.
She recalled going to her car after a snowstorm and seeing that the snow had been scrapped off.
He then gets up, shakes off some snow and continues on, to the approving hollers of his fellow skiers.
In western Wisconsin, an articulated lorry slid off a snow-covered highway and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person.
It cited new snowfall on top of a packed layer of snow that could cause snow slabs to slide off.
In western Wisconsin, a semi-trailer slid off a snow-covered interstate near Menomonie and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person.
An airport spokeswoman said flights had to be suspended from landing or taking off while snow was cleared and checks were carried out.
The Edinburgh club had to repair snow-related damage to the dugouts caused when snow and ice pulled off gutters from the main stand.
The Llangollen Railway reopened on Friday, with trains running up to Carrog, after staff and volunteers cleared snow and 24 trees off the line.
Most people step off that snow lift for the first time and stare down in awe at the sheer expanse of ice that awaits them.
Residents of a remote Exmoor village, cut off by snow, claim they are "always the first to suffer" when it comes to the council's gritting service.
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