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Northeast inundated


A snowmobiler drives past an upturned car on a snowbank in Hyannis, Mass., on Monday. A man who said he is the car's owner claimed a snowplow had pushed the unattended vehicle onto the mound of snow during a blizzard Sunday. 
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DENNIS, Mass. – Snowdrifts 6 feet high kept some Massachusetts residents trapped in their homes, and commuters across the Northeast limped back to work on icy roads and packed trains Monday as the region struggled to dig out from a paralyzing weekend blizzard.

Massachusetts had the most snow – a whopping 38 inches in cities north and south of Boston. As much as 21 inches of snow blanketed parts of New Jersey, where the morning commute was crippled by delays of more than an hour.

Many residents in the area were stuck at home because towns abandoned plowing efforts while wind piled the heavy snow into gigantic drifts. Peo-ple in the coastal town of Scituate south of Boston couldn’t get into their homes because of shore flooding that turned to ice.

Most Rhode Island government workers got the day off Monday.

School closings were reported from Virginia to Maine.

About 20 deaths were believed linked to the weather.

Parts of New Hampshire got 2 feet of snow, and New York’s Catskills collected at least 20 inches. Earlier, the weather system had piled a foot of snow across parts of the Midwest.