
The workweek in the snow-clobbered Northeast got off to a slow and slippery start Monday as drivers encountered unplowed streets, two-lane roads reduced to a single channel and snowbanks so high it was hard to see around corners.
"The hardest thing is being forced to do nothing, having forced R&R," said Mrs. Stewart, a nurse.
But she added: "When you're a New Englander, you kind of hunker down and just do it."