Boston's schools were set to open Monday morning, the city's mayor announced.Two deaths in New York were blamed on the storm.Power outages were on the decline.
Winter Storm Kenan began its exit from the Northeast Sunday morning, but not before leaving feet of snow that shut down travel and left tens of thousands in the dark.
(WATCH: Boston Buried in Snow)
By the early evening, things were getting back to normal in many communities, with school going ahead as planned on Monday, power outages dropping and airport cancellations disappearing.
Below is a look at what happened Sunday as people along the East Coast dug out from the storm. To view Saturday's live updates page, .
After canceling thousands of flights over the weekend, airports in the Northeast, including Boston Logan, New York's John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty were all anticipating on Monday, according to airline tracker FlightAware.
About 32,000 homes and businesses in the storm's path remained as of 4:15 p.m. EDT Sunday, nearly all of them in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts, according to PowerOutage.us. Utility companies said extra crews were working to restore power as quickly as possible.
Mayor Michelle Wu said schools would be open Monday and a snow emergency for the city would be lifted at 6 a.m.
Boston officially received 23.8 inches of snow from Kenan.
Bill McKelvey of Scituate, Massachusetts, uses a snowblower to clear snow in front of his home, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022.
(AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Three cities in Massachusetts comprised the 30-plus-inch club for Winter Storm Kenan, according to the National Weather Service:
-Stoughton: 30.9 inches
-Sharon: 30.4 inches
-Quincy: 30 inches
Before Winter Storm Kenan arrived, a historic home on Outer Cape Cod , and crews worked to fortify it as much as possible. Sunday morning, it was confirmed that the home after being buffeted by large waves and strong winds for more than 24 hours.
The Weather Channel confirmed two deaths on Long Island that were blamed on the storm. The Southold Town Police Department said an elderly man fell into a swimming pool while shoveling snow Saturday morning. First responders performed CPR on the unconscious man and he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In Uniondale, an elderly woman was found dead in her vehicle in the parking lot of a Marriott hotel, Nassau County Police said. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but authorities said it was likely she suffered a sudden health event and was unable to get up during the storm.
In Taunton, Massachusetts, documented about two feet of snow piling up around cars in a parking lot.
Although many of the region's hubs were expected to resume operations Sunday, flight cancellations continued to pile up. Roughly 1,000 flights into and out of the region , according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
In total, the storm was blamed for more than 4,500 canceled flights over the weekend.
Millions in the Northeast woke up to temperatures in the single digits and teens, adding to the urgency to restore power in areas where it was knocked out by Saturday's strong winds.
Fewer than 60,000 homes and businesses were without power in Massachusetts Sunday morning, and the rest of the region had no more than a few thousand outages combined, according to .
At one point Saturday evening, the state had more than 120,000 customers without power. Most of the outages were on Cape Cod, where winds .
Each of those numbers represents a single customer, meaning hundreds of thousands were without electricity in frigid temperatures.
Remember that generators can be deadly if used improperly. Follow when using one, and never operate a generator indoors or adjacent to a closed space.
Here's a slideshow of some of the storm's impacts.
A resident shovels snow around vehicles in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 30, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
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