can see it in the south shore in places lying hull and scituate. the other is power outages because this snow is wet and heavy. it will get on those wires. then you pick up, you get those 40, 50 mile-an-hour winds, that means downed wires and that could be a big problem as we go into this afternoon. >> thanks very much for that. that is the stuff to be careful about, downed wires, power out ands, advisability, fast snow that comes down so fast that no one can actually do anything about it. it's almost better to sit back and wait that out. meteorologist bill karins has been tracking the storm for days. this one actually happened, bill. >> it didn't happen exactly howe we thought it would but that's how these nor'easters go. a little shift of about 20, 25 miles made a big difference tw the snow and sleet forecast. we still have a high-impact event. give it a couple hours and things will improve to new york