they re trying to get used to this, but i hope you re also bracing for a second blast. margaret, how are people holding up there? reporter: fred, we re seeing more and more people brave the cold out on the streets today. massachusetts got up to two feet of snow over the last couple days. and temperatures last night were near record lows. today a lot of people have been frankly spending time shoveling out their parking spaces, shoveling out near ltheir driveways. i just want to show you what people have done to hold their parking space. we have a postal service box right there across the street. next door we have a fan box. someone just put snow inside that discarded box. we ve got a cone in the back where they ve been shoveling snow. over here we have a little pink kid s rocking chair holding the spot. i can t believe this works! reporter: that s right. it s worked. and we ve been out here for hours, and all of these spots have not been taken. but fred, we have to prepare. there