Weather

Crews have worked to restore power over the course of the week, the situation is increasingly dire for Cape residents. While some in area have taken refuge at overnight shelters, others are clamoring for the few hotel rooms in a region that famously shuts its doors in the offseason.

As of Tuesday, 150,000 Cape residents were still without power.

Plow drivers will clear highways and roads across the state over the next several days.

Officials are urging people to stay home and — if they must travel — take public transit. Flights and Amtrak trains have ground to a halt.

Travel is difficult across the state with blowing snow reducing visibility, the National Weather Service said. Thousands of customers are without power.

Snow cleanup has been slow across Boston after a winter storm blew through the region two weeks ago. Uncleared snow and ice are making it tough to walk or catch an MBTA bus.

The state has begun funding pop-up shelters in four additional locations this year, a formidable effort that materializes and evaporates based on the weather.

The Cape, Coast, and Islands are still digging out from a weekend storm that dropped up to 14 inches of snow in some communities by Monday morning.

Nearly all of Massachusetts got at least a foot of snow Sunday. For lots of kids, that made Monday a sledding holiday.

The snow has begun in New England and many Western Mass communities have parking bans in effect and have cancelled school Monday.