Seen in this two picture combo, at left taken on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 are cars abandoned during the beginning of the this week's blizzard on north bound lanes of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, while photo at right taken on Thursday, Feb. 3, more than 28 hours later, shows traffic flowing freely. City officials took criticism for keeping Lake Shore Drive open at the beginning of this week's blizzard. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley spoke publicly for the first time to defend his city's handling of the storm, which stranded hundreds of motorists in whiteout conditions on the famous Lake Shore Drive.

City Engineer Dave Desfosses surveys a huge snow pile Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, on Pierce Island in Portsmouth, N.H., where the city has been dumping snow from downtown.

Rich Brandt, crew leader with York Tree Service Inc., cuts branches off a tree that sagged onto a power line from ice accumulation in Newberry, Pa., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.

A car landed vertically in a snowbank in an accident involving several vehicles on Interstate 93 north of Salem, N.H. No one was injured.

A dog named Muldoon waits in the snow for its owner, Tess Taylor, who stopped for coffee on Feb. 2 in Barre, Vt. Schools, businesses and municipal offices are closed across Northern New England as the storm-weary region braces for what forecasters say could be more than a foot of snow in some places.

A stop sign pokes out of a large pile of snow at the end of a street in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011.

Pedestrians hold onto buildings or each other as they try to navigate an icy sidewalk on the first block of East Orange St. in Lancaster, Pa. on Tuesday, Feb. 1.