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These constant winter storms are wiping out city budgets and costing the travel industry millions of dollars. We have a team of reporters standing by to show you the impact of this latest winter storm. Lets start with cnns miguel marquez, who is driving and miguel you have been driving in this mess all day. A ton of snow hazardous conditions. Tell us what its like. Reporter it is hazardous and miserable out. I can tell you, it is amazing how they can keep this city going despite the fact that it is hobbled, it is not crippled. From the lowly snow shovel to backhoes to hundreds if not thousands of plows we have seen out there, boston keeps going and this snow is slowing it but not stopping it. For three mondays now, mountains of snow slamming the northeast. Everybodys just fed up. Reporter massachusetts, boston and surrounding cities again and again bearing the brunt. Its only been 14 days folks. Weve gotten 70 to 80 inches of snow around the commonwealth. This is pretty much unprecedented. Reporter across the region schools closed once again. Its good because like we get to go outside more but its like the wind is so hard so it makes it worse. Reporter transportation stopped cold. At bostons logan airport, most flights canceled. Authorities urging drivers, stay off the road but emergency workers have no choice. Every call gets a little more difficult. If someone doesnt have their sidewalk dug out or their stairs dug out yet, we either have to try to carry them through deep snow we can put them on these plastic type sleds. Reporter for some, all this white is green. How much do you make per sidewalk . 30 bucks, 40 bucks. Reporter how much you made so far . 350. Reporter just today so far in the last how many hours . Since 5 30 this morning. Reporter snow days for court as well. The boston bomber and former patriots star Aaron Hernandez both well publicized trials both snowed out. More wind more snow higher snow banks. You couldnt even see the beach. It was just white. Reporter in maine, the storm, gorgeous but a heavy burden. I snapped a shovel this morning. I got to get another one. Theres clearly more snow coming. Reporter in connecticut, piles of snow dwarf equipment struggling to remove it. This is ridiculous. Its freezing. Im ready for the summertime. Im tired of it honestly. Reporter the massive snowfall weighing down roofs with collapse possible. Crews have a treacherous new job, climbing ladders to shovel them off. If we get any kind of wet snow on top of this snow thats going to become a weight issue. Reporter this is one of the few times that we havent had snow today but this is what theyre looking at here. Five six feet of snow everywhere. Along these roads, the plows have pushed it up to six, seven, eight feet above the roads. They are running out of places here places like where we are now north of boston the south shore in this one storm got over 24 inches of snow. We are headed there next. Jake . Miguel marquez, travel safe. Crews are dumping mountains of snow off into remote areas nicknamed snow farms, but now the piles are frankly just too large and are taking up too much space. Workers are now trying to find creative ways to get rid of all the snow. Cnns chris welch joins me with that story. Chris, if you cant move it, melt it. Reporter right. Why not. Theyre starting to get very creative. Take a look behind me. This is what theyre calling the snow melter. These front end loaders have been going back and forth for hours, really for days now into this snow melter. In the last 24 hours alone, jake this machine has melted 6,000 truckloads of snow that have come in here from off the streets of the city of boston. Take a look at that as that snow goes in there, it just turns this into water and this basically has become sort of a pond here in this parking lot, and really a pond out on the street as well. As you take a look over to the right, you see why they are doing this. These mountains of snow at these snow farms that are around the city are, as you alluded to starting to reach capacity. The city starting to get creative. Obviously we have the snow melter the city actually has two of these snow melters, but the city is also considering dumping some of this snow into the harbor. In fact, all they really need to do to get that process under way is notify the state department of Environmental Protection and then they can do that. The mayor said they are considering that. Thats not something they would be doing today. But we also know we spoke to the department of Environmental Protection earlier today. We know that handful, about five cities already in the eastern portion of massachusetts, are notifying, have notified i should say, and will be starting to dump snow into rivers and into the ocean and into the harbor. Jake . Chris welch, thanks so much. Once the snow stops falling hopefully tonight, even more could be on the way before the end of the week. Meteorologist tom sater joins me from the cnn Severe Weather center. This next one i guess could put those snow totals well above the current records. Yeah. In fact we cracked the top ten. This is the tenth snowiest season now in boston has tore. The latest snowstorm still coming down in boston 19. 7 inches. There is more on the way. If you look at the top five seasons, believe it or not, we are at 73. 9. 73. 9. We are number ten now. It wont take much to get five four and three and most likely that will happen. The next storm system on its way. We still have snow showers, 21 degrees in providence not bad. Boston 20. That will seem balmy. Coldest air of the season is moving in for thursday back behind our next storm system into friday. New york you have been fine along i95 still some whiteout conditions and periodic snowfall into boston. There are dry patches to the north. Of course, where we had some of our reports. Tonight and overnight, we will still see the possibility two to four. Boston maybe four to six to add to the total. But heres the bad news. After this system leaves another clipper coming out of canada will move across the great lakes and transfer its energy to a possible noreaster. We are watching it closely but if this thing strengthens like we think it will we are looking at accumulations that could be easily a foot or more in the same bulls eye area of all the states including boston providence, hartford that have seen record numbers. Back behind this the coldest air of the season. They have got to get this snow off the streets before it freezes. Zero in buffalo sunday morning. New york city four. Boston, one. Behind that another blast of cold air that will trump this cold. We could be talking about water pipes bursting. This is going to be a mess in the days ahead. We are watching it closely. Tom sater with the relentless news. Thank you so much. This snow is also our money lead today, because the travel industry is taking a huge financial hit from these repeated snowstorms. Lets bring in cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. How many cancellations are we talking about just from this storm . More than 2,000 and you know we are talking about two storms that have slammed the northeast in the past two weeks and now, we are talking about a third. Of course that means more cancellations and more delays. I want to take a live look right now at flight awares misery map. This essentially tells you what the situation is in real time at various airports. If you take a look at chicago, for example, this just goes to show when you have cancellations and delays at major airports like this we talk about the Ripple Effect this is the Ripple Effect. All those orange markings that you see there, those are cancellations and delays essentially problems for airports as far as san francisco. Of course the same goes for new york city. This is boston. You can see about, you know 65 of the traffic there canceled or delayed. Speaking of boston i want to take a live look over boston logan airport. You can see what is it four or five airplanes in the sky there. Compare that to what it looks on an average day and this is usually what it looks like. A lot more activity. So the situation doesnt look very good for boston. We know that many cancellations will be under way because of all the snow they are getting there. In fact one company, mass flight says that the number of cancellations this year already surpassed what we saw around the same time last year. Rene, these cancellations are not just costly for airlines of course. The passengers take a hit. Whats the Economic Impact of all these winter storms . If we take a look at exactly what we are talking about as far as cancellations go we know that so far, all winter with all of the storms that we saw, we have seen more than 19,000 cancellations. As it relates to how much it costs people passengers its cost them roughly 693 million. As far as the Airlines Cost them a pretty penny as well. Talking about 60 million. Of course those figures according to mass flight. Rene marsh, thank you so much. One of the biggest concerns right now for Emergency Personnel in the boston area specifically helping residents who could be in serious danger. Several roofs have already collapsed from the weight of the tons of piling snow. In some areas, fire hydrants completely covered. With more snow coming, it may only get worse. That is next. Mouths are watering, lemons are squeezing and stomachs are growling. Or is it just me . Every minute between you and red lobsters lobsterfest feels like an eternity. 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Reporter its keeping everybody very busy including homeowners, because this what is they have to do every single day. Theyve got to shovel their sidewalks. Officials recommend that you shovel for your elderly neighbors as well because they might not be able to do that. The other thing thats very important is that you clear out these fire hydrants for obvious reasons. In the case of an emergency you want to make sure the Fire Department has plenty of access. And the city has already issued about 1500 citations for people who dont clear their sidewalks or decide to shovel out on the street which is not recommended. Now, this snow doesnt only just pack on the street. Where else does it end up . Take a look. Thats right, on rooftops. You can see how dangerous it can be when all of that weight weighs on a structure. I want you to take a look at this video because my crew and i were actually just on a roof with a Contracting Company that gave us a brief demonstration of what they deal with. Its very dangerous, they have to work very slowly and officials and contractors alike will tell you that you dont want to do it by yourself. You want to have a professional. Take a listen. I have been doing this for over 30 years. I have seen a lot of storms. Were supposed to by osha rules be in the safest position. You should be up on the roof with a hook ladder adequate crew. Dont move too fast. Just you know, go at it from the top down. Reporter one of the other hazards, simply pedestrians walking down sidewalks. In this area they are lucky enough to have a sidewalk. In other areas that we have been folks are forced on to the streets when they are pedestrians just because there is no other way. The other thing i want you to take a look at is how narrow this street looks. Imagine driving through here . Not only is it very narrow but visibility is also very loechltw. Of course there are plows everywhere. One of the things the mayor is recommending is if you have headphones and are you used to walking down the street with them, dont use them. Then you wont be able to hear the plow and there is another danger. Rosa flores thank you so much. Lets go to peter judge on the phone. Hes with the massachusetts Emergency Management agency. Mr. Judge, thanks for joining us. Just minutes ago the subway system announced its suspending service after 7 00 this evening. What are the dangers of the snow once the sun goes down tonight . Well the sun goes down you know we will see a lot of freezing on the roads that have been plowed so certainly driving is going to be a problem. The mbta is going to have issues relative to dealing with ice on the third rail on a lot of the transportation problems so you know theres a lot of stuff well have to deal with this evening and again, as rosa just said folks, pedestrians who cant walk on the sidewalk walk out in the street and streets not wide enough for the cars let alone pedestrians as well. How dangerous has it been for people in boston in the last or massachusetts, more largely, in the last couple weeks . Have there been fatalities have roofs caved in and actually hurt anybody . Knock on wood there have been only a few fatalities in the original storm. There were a few folks who had heart attacks following shoveling of the major storm. As far as roof collapses, the ones that we have had, we only had a handful, have taken place in sort of Industrial Storage facilities warehouses those types of things. There have been a couple of homes that folks have been asked to evacuate because the integrity of the structure looked like potentially coming down but fortunately, considering what we have been through over the last three weeks, very lucky as far as the lack of serious injuries or certainly deaths. Peter, i keep hearing about the fact that hydrants are buried in the snow as a major concern. Why . Well as we saw with a couple of fires earlier in the week crew shows up fire engine shows up and theres no hydrant because its somewhere buried and theyve got to waste precious time to dig them out. First of all, locate them, then dig them out. Repeated its something folks have repeatedly had to do and literally, they dig them out and the plow comes down the street and throws some more snow on it and they disappear again. Folks in neighborhoods really have been vigilant as far as trying to keep those hydrants dug out simply for their own safety. Peter judge, thank you so much. 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