A massive winter storm dropped 30 centimeters of snow on the northeastern U.S. by Tuesday morning, but fell short of forecasters' worst predictions.
Snowstorm Sweeps Northeastern US

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Water floods a street on the coast in Scituate, Massachusetts, Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow.

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Denise Young, of Lynnfield, Mass., a nursing supervisor at Massachusetts General Hospital, adjusts her hood while walking to work in Boston, Jan. 27, 2015.

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Men carry shovels a snow covered road after an overnight snowstorm in Hoboken, New Jersey, Jan. 27, 2015.

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A man uses a snowmobile to travel along a street before dawn during a winter snowstorm in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 27, 2015.