two feet of snow teetering on historic nature. the peak of the intensity will be from saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from the northern new england region. the snow will get to the middle of the day from philadelphia to new york city as the storm runs parallel with the coastline. check out this very informative map from the national weather service. it puts a threat index for the entire eastern seaboard and we focus in on massachusetts and rhode island. look at the shading of purple including the boston metropolitan and focus your attention on the legend on the top portion of the screen. they expect extreme winter impacts from this particular nor'easter and don't use that word lightly. they talk about snowfall totals per hour from three to four inches per hour. you can imagine how quickly that