The East Coast digs out

Snow covers the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 4 on Tuesday, Dec. 28, in New York City. Flights have slowly started to resume in New York but lines to rebook have been long.

People sleep and eat on the floor while waiting for a flight at Terminal 4 of John F. Kennedy International Airport Tuesday.

A New Jersey Transit train arrives at the Princeton Junction station Tuesday in West Windsor, N.J.

A front-end loader removes snow in New York's Times Square on Tuesday ahead of New Year festivities.

A doorman shovels a path on the east side of Manhattan on Tuesday after the blizzard dropped 20 inches of snow in the area.

Dave Duncan sits in his Honda Civic, buried on the street, in Asbury Park, N.J., on Tuesday.

Travelers wait in ticketing lines at New York's LaGuardia airport on Tuesday.

Icicles melt in the afternoon sun as temperatures rise into the high 30s Tuesday in Hamilton, N.J.

This traveler at Miami International Airport was among the many waiting Tuesday for flights after the Northeast blizzard caused backups across the country.

A young person sleds down a snow covered hill at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia on Monday. A blizzard pummeled the Northeast on Monday, dumping up to 29 inches of snow, disrupting air and rail travel and challenging motorists with blowing snow and icy roads at the end of the busy Christmas weekend. New York City, eastern New Jersey and western Long Island were the hardest hit by the storm.

Travelers carry their luggage through a snow bank on 7th Ave. in front of Penn Station after a snow storm in New York, Dec. 27. A blizzard pummeled the Northeast on Monday, dumping up to 29 inches of snow, disrupting air and rail travel and challenging motorists with blowing snow and icy roads at the end of the busy Christmas weekend. New York City, eastern New Jersey and western Long Island were the hardest hit by the storm.

A windswept beach looks desolate following a snow storm on Monday in Westport, Conn.

Children play on a mound of snow on The Boardwalk, Dec. 27, in Atlantic City, N.J.

Gregg Smith shovels out after a heavy snowfall in the Boston suburb of Marlborough, Mass., Dec. 27. A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway Monday, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays.

Alexa Canning and Talia Quinn fly through the air after hitting a jump on their sleds in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

A man shovels snow on a street along the Brooklyn waterfront, Dec. 27, in New York City.

Commuters, who were trapped over night, sit on parked trains at Penn Station in New York City on Monday.

A woman exercises in a snow covered pasture in Durham, N.C., Monday, after a powerful East Coast blizzard that moved through Christmas day.

A strong gust of wind blows snow in front of a man in Philadelphia, Monday.

A woman walks her dog between snowed-in taxicabs following a major blizzard in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Monday in New York City.

Elena Amaral shovels steps at Trinity College during the storm in Hartford, Conn., Monday.

A homeowner clears snow from the end of his driveway, Dec. 27, in Norfolk, Mass., following the blizzard which brought more than a foot of snow in the Boston area. The storm dumped snow from Atlanta, Ga. to Maine.

Michael Howard of Albany, N.Y., shovels out his vehicle on Monday.

A woman walks through the snow in Manhattan's East Village in the early hours of Monday.

A New Jersey state trooper arrives to help after cars crash during heavy snowfall on Sunday near Columbus, N.J.

A worker clears snow from the seats at the Philadelphia Eagles stadium.

The storm moved up from the south, where areas like Raleigh, N.C., saw snow over the weekend as well.