kathy, i love the snow. i hate hearing the words "arctic blast." >> reporter: yeah, me too, especially when you have to stand out in it, right? >> i get it. >> reporter: here in boston the conditions are actually getting a little better. the snow is starting to taper off. but earlier this morning, as you mentioned, the snow was really coming down hard. 1 to 2 inches per hour. but as you know, it's pretty cold out here. so anything that falls, it's sticking and it's accumulating, and the crews here really had their work cut out for them. this is atlantic avenue behind me here that you're looking at. not a lot of traffic. as you know, we're living in covid so a lot of people are probably working from home, probably had the day off. a lot of kids don't have school today. boston public schools canceled school because of the inclement weather. but kind of going back to the cleanup effort, i mean, they had 2,500 pieces of equipment scattered throughout the state today. boston knows what they're doing when it comes to a snowstorm. they were able to get ahead of