‘Bomb Cyclone’: Snow and Bitter Cold Blast the Northeast

Boston’s Long Wharf area became a slushy mess when a three-foot tidal surge pushed floodwaters into buildings and down the steps of the Aquarium mass transit station. Firefighters rescued one person who was trapped in a car that had water nearly to its door handles. “This is the first time I’ve ever seen the water come this high in the downtown area,” Joseph Finn, the city’s fire commissioner, said as the wind whipped heavy snow through the air. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/winter-snow-bomb-cyclone.html