Digging out | Boston deals with massive amounts of snow

A car is buried in snow on a residential street in South Boston on Feb. 23. (Elise Amendola / Associated Press)

Feb. 19, 2015 9:23 AM PT

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Boston is a city that flaunts its ability to tough out winter with an army of snowplows and salt by the ton. But this week a sense of crisis set in as residents realize it will be at least several more weeks before the city -- and their lives -- can be fully functional again.

A woman walks through blowing snow in East Boston. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Workers clear snow from a roof in Boston. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Icicles hang from buildings on Beacon Street in Boston. New England remained bitterly cold after the region’s fourth winter storm in a month blew through. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Blowing snow on the waterfront in East Boston. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

As snow flurries begin to fall again, pedestrians walk through Boston City Hall Plaza. (Charles Krupa / Associated Press)

Snow covers the roofs in the South End neighborhood of Boston. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Workers use heavy machinery on a pile of snow hauled to a ‘snow farm’ at a parking lot in the Seaport District of Boston. (JOHN CETRINO / EPA)

A worker clears snow from a walkway in Boston’s Piers Park neighborhood. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Austin Anschultz, left, and Graham Jamison walk through blowing snow on Beacon Hill in Boston on Sunday. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

A lone car drives over the Zakim Bridge in Boston on Sunday. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Snow nearly reaches the top of parking meters Sunday in Boston during the fourth major storm to hit New England in recent weeks. (Scott Eisen / Getty Images)