When baby Anna Klein wakes up to the second day of her life on Wednesday, the sun will come out to greet her and nearly all of frigid New England, too.
But it will also shine down on snow piled high.
Anna was born early Tuesday in Hartford, Connecticut, at the height of the storm.
By the end of the day, parts of four states saw nearly three feet of white, breaking local records. Massachusetts got buried the deepest.
Boston saw its biggest snow for any January with more than 24 inches. Worchester, Massachusetts, broke its all-time record with 33.5 inches. Only Lunenburg, Massachusetts, broke the three-foot mark — with 36 inches even — by early Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Many more areas from New York to Maine saw two feet or more.
Contractions
When the contractions hit Anna’s mother Heather Klein around midnight she called Hartford police about the travel ban that was in place. They told her it would be fine for her to break it to drive to the hospital.
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She’ll stay with friends until she can find another place to live.
Snowballs
The storm warnings seemed to impress even the most jaded Northeasterner from Brooklyn to Bangor. Still, not everyone was shaking in their snow boots.
Fresh off snowblowing his driveway, on Tuesday, Jim Robins estimated about 2 feet of light, fluffy snow had fallen outside his home in Dover, New Hampshire. While that’s hardly a dusting, it’s also not surprising when you live in New England.
“Sure, that’s a lot, but I have tons of family in Buffalo and they were dealing with 6-10 feet of (snow) at the start of the season,” Robins said. “We will weather this like the New Englanders we are.”
In the coastal city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hundreds accepted a Facebook invitation to a community snowball fight — one that organizer Devin Murphy joked is in the proud tradition dating back to around 1624, when the city was first settled.
CNN’s Tina Burnside, Brian Todd, Anderson Cooper, Ana Cabrera contributed to this report.
