BOSTON — Leaden skies tested the patience and sanity of winter-weary New Englanders once again over the weekend, unleashing more than two feet of new snow on parts of the region. It was the latest installment in a relentless string of storms that have blended, one into the next, enveloping every car and every home so that nothing has a distinct shape anymore; the landscape is just one seamless blanket of white.
It is hard to remember when the snows began, and even harder to imagine when they might end. There are almost no humans to be seen outdoors, just the blowing, drifting sheets of whiteness, punctuated by an occasional beeping yellow plow pushing its catch up against mounds already eight feet high, 10 feet high, even 15 feet high, further burying long-submerged cars that now seem lost forever in a frosty version of Pompeii.
A television news show flickered with images sent in by viewers, taken inside homes where the snow had piled up above windows and entombed the occupants.
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“We had a big Mardi Gras celebration prepared for Tuesday, but because of the snow, we moved that to this morning, with king cakes from down South,” he said Sunday as he shoveled out his car. “Then of course we had to cancel that.”
Mayor Walsh expressed relief that Monday was a holiday. “Take it as an opportunity to dig out around your homes,” he advised. “God knows how many weeks we’ll be doing this.”
A version of this article appears in print on February 16, 2015, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: Dangers, Frustrations and Snow Keep Piling Up in New England . Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
