East Coast hit by major snowstorm

Workers clear the tracks of snow at the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Railroad in New York N.Y. Service is suspended on the Port Washington branch due to the recent snow storm.

People walk near the Washington Monument in Washington.

A child goes sledding down a hill in Bruce Park in Greenwich, Connecticut.

General view of Brooklyn Bridge with snowed up docks in New York.

A young girl is sliding on the West Lawn of the US Capitol in Washington. Millions of people in the eastern United States started digging out from a huge blizzard that brought New York and Washington to a standstill.

Children slide in the snow in Central Park in New York.

Dan Cooperman falls into a deep snowbank in Brooklyn, N.Y., as he was trying to clear his car on Jan. 24.

John Ruiz, 18, left, and Tyrone Graham, 16, earn money digging cars out of the snow in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 24.

Saul Shapiro, center, Jim Keller, right, and Jonathan Marvel, back, enjoy cross-country skiing along the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront on Jan. 24.

As the sun comes out on Jan. 24 after a major snowstorm hit the Northeast, families enjoy sledding at Hillside Dog Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Snow covers the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background on Jan. 24.

Two women make their way across 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

A light snow continued to fall in Brooklyn late Saturday.

Pedestrians battle heavy snow and wind on 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

The snowy scene on Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Conn.

A couple walk along the Brooklyn Bridge.

Blizzard conditions make driving difficult on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn.

A man skis across the Brooklyn Bridge.

A snowplow clears Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

New York canceled bus service because of the snowstorm.

A man crosses a windy snowy street in Manhattan.

A car owner digs out in Brooklyn.

Snow falls heavily in Manhattan on Saturday morning.

Pedestrians trudge through heavy snow falling on Manhattan.

New Yorkers don boots, gloves and parkas against the wind and snow.

A woman and her dog have the streets mostly to themselves in Brooklyn as heavy snow pounds the East Coast.

A plow clears a street Friday in Bowling Green, Ky.

Workers shovel snow on the Martin Luther King bridge in Roanoke, Va., as snow falls Friday morning.

Taylor Mushtare scrapes ice and snow from her car in Old Southwest Roanoke, Va.

A woman strolls along Campbell Avenue at First Street with her dog as snow falls Friday morning in Roanoke, Va.

A customer looks at the heavily depleted bread section of a grocery store, as shoppers prepare for an approaching snowstorm in Alexandria, Va.

Snow gathers on a swing set in Highland Park in Roanoke, Va.

Donald Summit plows the sidewalk along Williamson Road in Roanoke, Va., as snow falls Friday morning.

Bashon Mann and his children sled down a hill on Capitol Hill in Washington as snow falls around them. It may have taken an act of Congress, but the children of Washington are finally welcome to go sledding on Capitol Hill.

Cesar Gonzalez builds a snowman in Oxford, Miss.

Barbara Davis walks her dog Haddix in Bowling Green, Ky. Snow and drizzle began falling early Wednesday across much of Kentucky and Tennessee, leading school districts and some universities to cancel classes and officials to warn motorists to drive carefully.

Shoveled snow is piled in the plaza east of the Capitol in Washington.

Secret Service officers and pedestrians in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue after a light snow storm.

Tara Jakeway with Chasing News makes an angel in the man-made snow in New York’s Central Park during Winter Jam NYC’s Ultimate Snow Day, a free festival for people to learn to ski, snowboard and sled.

Beth Bryant takes part in a parents-vs.-kids snowball fight at Bowling Green Junior High School in Kentucky.

In Bismarck, N.D., the Pioneer Family monument on the mall of the state Capitol is covered in frost.

A city worker blows snow from a sidewalk in Knoxville, Tenn.

A snow plow works on clearing the Volunteer Parkway as snow falls in Bristol, Tenn.

A bicyclist has his hands full as he pedals through the snow in Bristol, Va.

Nick Morgan shovels sidewalks of Indiana Woods Apartment complex in Evansville, Ind.

Work continues at the Howell Railroad Yard in Evansville, Ind., with a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. Another round of snow is forecast for Thursday.

Atley Osborne and her sled part ways as she slides down Reitz High School’s practice field hill in Evansville, Ind.

A woman braves snowy conditions in Washington.

A man clears a sidewalk in Washington.