East Coast digs out from under TWO FEET of snow: Seven dead as winter storm Nemo shuts down nuclear power station, leaves up to 650,000 without power and closes ALL the roads in Connecticut

By ASSOCIATED PRESS, LYDIA WARREN and NINA GOLGOWSKI

Residents on the East Coast struggled to dig out from as much as three feet of snow Saturday as nearly every mode of travel from Maine to New York remained paralyzed by a massive nor'easter.

One of hardest-hit places was Connecticut, where even emergency responders found themselves stuck on highways all night. In Fairfield, police and firefighters could not come in to work, so the overnight shift stayed on.

Several state police cars were also stuck in deep snow in Maine, where stranded drivers were warned to expect long waits for tow trucks. Cars were entombed by drifts. And some people woke up in the morning to find the snow packed so high they couldn't get their doors open.

Nearly 600,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity by the behemoth nor’easter packing hurricane-force wind gusts and blizzard conditions, and some of those impacted could be cold and dark for days.

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Sea of white: Mary Leahy shovels out her sidewalk during a blizzard in Medford, Massachusetts

Exercise regimen: A shirtless jogger runs through chilly Central Park, where the snow total reached 11.4 inches

Impassable: The entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway is seen closed in the Suffolk County area of New York

Pleasant stroll: People walk along the Brooklyn Bridge following the massive nor'easter

Perfect storm: NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows two low pressure systems coming together to form a giant nor'easter centered right over New England

Picture perfect: A man shovels the front of his home on Third street in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston

Back in business: Patrick Cramphorn places an Open flag outside the P.I. Beachcoma Restaurant in Newburyport, Mass., as snow winds down in Plum Island

Tropics: A man carries a pineapple while walking along 42nd Street in New York

At least seven deaths were blamed on the storm, including three in Canada. In southern Ontario, an 80-year-old woman collapsed while shoveling her driveway and two men were killed in car crashes.

On Saturday morning, an 11-year-old Boston boy became the city’s first blizzard fatality after he died of carbon monoxide poisoning while shoveling snow with his father.

Boston fire department spokesperson Stephen MacDonald told the Boston Herald that the young victim got into the passenger seat of the family car to stay warm.

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