BOSTON -- Two days after a nor'easter roared up the eastern seaboard dumping more than a foot of snow on cities from Baltimore to Boston, hundreds of thousands of air travelers are still stranded. The cancellations were so extensive across the region that some passengers may not get off the ground until Christmas.

Airports in the Northeast that were jammed up this weekend were working their way back to normal. On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration was reporting that all major airports on the East Coast, including Logan Airport, had average flight delays of less than 15 minutes.

Still, three major airports in the New York City area were expecting an unusually busy holiday travel week as many who were stranded by the cancellation of 1,200 flights over the weekend try to make it to their destinations.

Meanwhile on the ground, residents were still working to clear snow from their homes and businesses. 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 this weekend.

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.

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 Sunday.

In Boston, a snow emergency went into effect Saturday evening, where snow totals could top 15 inches by the end of the weekend. Boston Public Schools were closed on Monday.

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

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