Photos: Blizzard brings pain and joy to East Coast
Snow is piled in front of the U.S. Capitol Sunday in Washington, DC. Monuments normally busy with tourists were largely deserted.
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A massive winter storm buried much of the U.S. East Coast in as much as 3 feet of snow in some places by Sunday, but travel bans were slowly lifting following overnight snow-clearing by emergency workers.
The storm stranded drivers on snowbound highways on Saturday and knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. Still, some were lured out to play in the snow.
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