Northeast is digging out from snowstorm

A commuter in Philadelphia exhales in freezing temperatures.   (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

With the temperature at minus 1, a bicyclist in Pittsburgh rides along the Allegheny River.  (Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press)

Messiah Lorenzan, 11, left; Znobia Lorenzan, 13, and Zynha Lorenzan, 12, wait for a bus home after school in Brooklyn.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

A woman rides over a snow-covered foot bridge in Brooklyn the morning after a major winter storm blanketed New York City.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Alisa Riley shovels snow from a sidewalk in front of a women’s fitness center in Scituate, Mass.  (Steven Senne / Associated Press)

A man tries to clear a path in New Bedford, Mass.  (Peter Pereira / Associated Press)

A snowman stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.  (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)