BOSTON -- Just in time for the holidays, the strong Nor'easter that roared up the Eastern seaboard, blanketing Washington, D.C., and New York, also hit southern New England, covering Plymouth Rock with snow.

Some areas of Massachusetts' South Coast, from Boston south to Cape Cod and the islands, got anywhere from 8 to 16 inches of light, fluffy snow Sunday.

Blizzard warnings were in effect for parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where winds were as high as 51 mph on Nantucket and 47 mph in Provincetown, threatening those areas with power outages and creating hazardous driving and visibility conditions.

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State Police said they had responded to about 100 incidents on the roads overnight, but none were serious as the storm hit on a quiet Sunday.

"Nobody's been hurt over the night with no major incidents or road closures," State Trooper David Mehan said.

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By daylight, however, a woman who was 7 months pregnant was involved in an accident in Bourne when her car hit a snow plow on Route 28 south about 7 a.m. She was not seriously hurt but was taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said.

Eight thousand customers were reported without power on Cape Cod, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, or MEMA, and four shelters were opened on the cape from Sandwich to Yarmouth. The high winds meant a wind chill factor remaining in the single digits for most of the day.

The storm crippled travel plans for scores of holiday travelers who were met with delays and cancellations at Boston's Logan International Airport, which had 30-35 plows on the airfield trying to keep a single runway open early Sunday, airport spokesman Phil Orlandella said.

"It's pretty fluffy. It's not that wet, so it's good but there's just so much so it's hard to push," said one plow driver. "It's slowed down a little bit but it's still coming down fast and the wind is killer."

The storm was heaviest along Massachusetts South Coast, extending into Rhode Island, with Barrington, R.I. accumulating 14 inches of snow by just before dawn. The storm was not expected to let up until later Sunday afternoon. One motorist driving the Massachusetts Turnpike in a Hummer said even he had trouble negotiating the roads.

"It's just been lots of snow. You can't really see too much ... It's pretty nasty out here," said Johnny Ly of New Jersey.

Another driver said it took him three hours to drive from Springfield to Boston and he was never able to go more than 30 mph.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said more than 4,000 plows and spreaders were working the roads, trying to keep them clear, but he said wind made road conditions treacherous in some areas. He advised motorists to avoid traveling if at all possible.

In Boston, a snow emergency went into effect Saturday evening, where snow totals could top 15 inches by the end of the weekend.

A citywide parking ban will be in effect during the snow emergency, and Mayor Thomas Menino urged residents to use public transportation while traveling. Emergency homeless shelters will also be open throughout the day Sunday.

State police issued a warning that parking was prohibited on all Department of Conservation and Recreation state roads in Greater Boston so they could be kept plowed and open for emergencies. Troopers said Saturday night they had located about 570 cars still parked on state DCR roads that would be towed during the night if not removed by their owners.

North and west of Boston it was a different story, with accumulations of only 3 to 8 inches expected and only a dusting further north into New Hampshire.

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