Here's some pictures from Northern Mass. We already had 27" inches in our town before noon, and it has snowed basically constantly since then, so we're probably closing in on three feet now.
First, around eleven o'clock last night, our back deck looked like this:
Needless to say, we were not impressed. However, eight short hours later, when I got up...
...I was a little more impressed.
We didn't get out to shovel until the early afternoon, but things were buried! This is the only door that opens inward and so the only door that we could exit the house through:
The cars were buried.
This is our street. It hasn't been plowed since the early morning:
Here's another set of comparison pictures from last night and this afternoon.
We've managed to shovel out the path from the front door to the van, and completely freed up the van. We have nothing but shovels, so the progress is slow. I need to free up the Corolla tomorrow, which will be a big project.