Monster snowstorm ravages New England

Much of Massachusetts spent Saturday digging out, waiting for power, and navigating a snow-shrouded landscape.

Water closed in on Andrea Giacomozti and her daughter Gavin of Turner Road in Scituate.

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Water closed in on Andrea Giacomozti and her daughter Gavin of Turner Road in Scituate.

PFC Juan Jimens with the 11 82nd National Guard looked over a flooded Turner Road in Scituate.

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PFC Juan Jimens with the 11 82nd National Guard looked over a flooded Turner Road in Scituate.

A snowboarder caught some air on Boston Common.

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A snowboarder caught some air on Boston Common.

Quincy, MA--2/9/2013 A National Grid utility worker works on a power line on Washington Steet on Saturday February 9 2013. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) Topic: 10storm Reporter:

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A National Grid utility worker worked on a power line.

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A snowblower sprayed as winds gusted.

Frank Baldwin crested a hill of snow in Salisbury.

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Frank Baldwin crested a hill of snow in Salisbury.

Zachary Lavalley, 4, relaxed at the Salisbury senior center, where many sought refuge.

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Zachary Lavalley, 4, relaxed at the Salisbury senior center, where many sought refuge.

Residents on Shawmut Avenue in Boston dug out after the storm.

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Residents on Shawmut Avenue in Boston dug out after the storm.

Boylston Street was a pedestrian walkway at midday Saturday.

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Boylston Street was a pedestrian walkway at midday Saturday.

Waves crashed over sand barriers and destroyed the decks of shorefront houses on Plum Island.

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Waves crashed over sand barriers and destroyed the decks of shorefront houses on Plum Island.

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Waves breached a wall in Winthrop Saturday.

Aengus Mcallister emerged with his snow brush from his vehicle on Beacon Hill.

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Aengus Mcallister emerged with his snow brush from his vehicle on Beacon Hill.

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A Winthrop resident shoveled as the waves crashed nearby.

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Snowdrifts completely covered cars in South Boston.

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In South Boston, residents began to dig out their cars.

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One person strapped on a snowboard to navigate the wintry streets.

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Snow covered the steps of homes in South Boston.

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Wellesley firefighters came to the aid of a fellow firefighter stuck in the snow.

Blair Holbrook skied down Cambridge Street on Friday.

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Blair Holbrook skied down Cambridge Street on Friday.

Power lines were down in Scituate.

Utilities’ response being closely watched

More than 420,000 National Grid and NStar customers lost power at the height of the snowstorm.

Ocean roared into homes of snow shovelers

The displaced clambered into rescue vehicles on the South Shore and in water flooding vulnerable towns like Winthrop.

Amy Kelly and her sons, John, 12, (left) and Matthew, 9, dressed warmly to play a board game Saturday after losing power Friday night.

Quincy family toughs it out as thermostat drops

The Kelly family took the storm and power outage in stride, but by Saturday afternoon, the whole situation was getting old, fast.

A teenage boy was overcome by carbon monoxide while sitting in a running car on Nazing Street, Roxbury.

2 car deaths in Boston tied to carbon monoxide

Four people were poisoned by carbon monoxide, two fatally, while trying to get warm in cars Saturday.

A 1955 Miami Beach Police mug shot of Bulger (left), and his booking photo in 2011.

A window into Whitey’s brutal life and mind

A new biography, written by the Globe’s Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, traces James “Whitey” Bulger’s rise, reign, and the reckoning ahead.

Scott Butera (left), chief executive of Foxwoods, and developer David Nunes

Foxwoods joins chase for casino license in Mass.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, now a partner in a Milford proposal, is promising a “full court press” for the sole casino resort license in the Boston region.

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Nick Offerman calls himself a humorist not a comic.

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A street poster from Cairo that reads, “My God, my freedom, O my country.”

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As the Red Sox gather, much of the focus will be on John Farrell.

Red Sox aim to make this a season of change

Heading into spring training, the Red Sox are a team in transition, and expectations have not been this modest in years.

Metro

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From left to right: Scott Brown, Kerry Healey, William Weld, and Charles Baker.

Activists say Republicans can do well in Senate race

The Mass. GOP is trying to put the best face on the lesser-known contenders after Scott Brown and other top-tier Republicans decided not to run.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

A playful solution
Boston fans wear paper bags on their heads during a game against Toronto at Fenway Park Sept. 9. The Blue Jays won 4-3 to sweep the three-game series.

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Selling the Red Sox
The MBTA’s new subway ads feature badly behaving animals.

JEFF JACOBY

Boston’s commuters could learn a lesson from Tokyo’s

JOANNA WEISS

Facebook’s reckoning moment
The Cambridge start-up Trovare is designing a rubber wristband called Amico, a new entrant in F2F networking.

Innovation Economy

Can technology help face-to-face networking?

SCOT LEHIGH

Patrick’s tax-and-spending plan too ambitious

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Grief doesn’t have a timeline

Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger’s wily ways

Kobe Bryant (right) was sitting late, coach Mike D’Antoni (second from left) sparing him the indignity of a blowout.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics, Lakers at opposite ends of the court
The Superdome in New Orleans was darkened during a power outage in the third quarter of the Super Bowl Sunday.

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‘Frank, we lost the A feed’

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Boston’s plague of cheap parking

Yvonne Abraham

Marty Walz a loss on Beacon Hill

Nation & World

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Protesters rallied in Tunis on Saturday, a day after the funeral for an opposition leader.

Tunisian leader to quit if Cabinet plan rejected

Tunisia’s Islamist prime minister said he will resign if his proposal to appoint a nonpolitical Cabinet is rejected.

Politics

Gabrielle Giffords is the face and emotional dynamism behind a new advocacy group and a separate political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions, dedicated to reducing gun violence.

Gabrielle Giffords fights for gun control

The former representative from Arizona, an incipient gun-control advocate, is settling into the third act of her public life.

Business

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On the Job

“Sacred architecture is architecture of the spirit,” says Ethan Anthony of the Boston firm Cram & Ferguson, which was founded in 1889 by Ralph Adams Cram.

Church architect finds inspiration in his work

“Sacred architecture is architecture of the spirit,” says Ethan Anthony of the Boston firm Cram & Ferguson.

Arts

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Opera Review

Neal Ferreira, David McFerrin, Samuel Levine, Christine Abraham, and David Kravitz in “Clemency.’’

BLO’s Opera Annex premieres MacMillan’s ‘Clemency’

The progressive flank of the Boston Lyric Opera resumed its march on Wednesday night, as the company unveiled the fourth production in its Opera Annex series.

Travel

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The lounge and restaurant at the White Barn Inn in Kennebunk Beach is set in what was once a barn.

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A drive along the shore road in Kennebunk Beach reveals a setting worthy of a Stephen King novel.

Books

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Porter’s wife writes in “Glenveagh Mystery: The Life, Work and Disappearance of Arthur Kingsley Porter,” he disappeared forever without a trace.

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Opinion

“There was too much ‘Sweet Caroline’ and not enough sweet victory. The Sox brand is hurting, and the owners know it.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Though speech is far more open in Egypt, it now carries a new and different kind of risk, one more unpredictable and sudden.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on Egypt’s free-speech backlash

“I felt pretty guilty, because everyone is out shoveling their cars and here I am walking to the bar.”

Jan Thibault, 30,  of South Boston