Hours of heavy snowfall, coastal flooding and whipping winds combined to make this weekend'sblizzard one of the most powerful weather events to ever hit the east coast of the U.S.
What had been a relatively calm and snow-less winter for much of the region ended on Saturday, as the storm dumped snow on a wide swath of eastern seaboard. Ten states in all have declared a state of emergency, stretching from Georgia up through New York.
