© Reuters/Adam HungerA view of a pumpkin patch covered in snow is seen in Portsmouth, New Hampshire October 30, 2011.
The record-breaking snow was heaviest in the western Massachusetts town of Plainfield, where 27.8 inches fell according to the National Weather Service. Northwest of New York City, in West Milford, New Jersey, 19 inches of snow fell.
"It's too scary -- the windows are rattling too loud," a terrified Sophia Band, 6, said, her father recalled, during the crushing storm in Conway, Massachusetts overnight.
The snowy, windy weather that began Saturday was expected to exit Maine later Sunday, but not before dumping up to a foot of snow on northern New England, particularly southern Vermont, the National Weather Service said.
Howling winds and heavy, wet snow snapped enormous trees like twigs, downing power lines from West Virginia to Massachusetts.
By midday Sunday, there were close to 3.2 million households without electricity across the Mid-Atlantic and New England, according to Weather.com.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the state experienced the largest number of power outages in its history. Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey all said they did not expect service to return to normal for several days, while in Connecticut it could be more than a week.
