US northeast digs out from deadly blizzard The US northeast was hit with up to a metre of snow and high winds, leaving at least nine dead. THE northeast of the United States has crawled out from under a mammoth blizzard that caused at least nine deaths and paralysed the region with high winds and heaps of snow. An estimated 350,000 customers were still without power in the wake of the storm that struck a slew of states and dumped up to a metre of snow across New England before battering three Canadian provinces. The majority of the service disruptions were in hard hit Massachusetts, where Governor Deval Patrick said outages were at 250,000 on Sunday, down from 400,000 on Saturday. As crews worked to clear roads and footpaths, travel conditions in the area slowly began to pick up and return to normal. New York area airports LaGuardia, John F Kennedy and Newark, which halted all flights during the height of the storm, resumed service with some delays. Boston's Logan International Airport meanwhile warned travellers it was still experiencing some weather-related delays and cancellations. FlightAware.com, which over the weekend listed almost 2000 cancellations around the area, said 87 flights were scrapped at Logan, compared to 13 at JFK, two at LaGuardia and 11 at Canada's Halifax Stanfield International Airport. To facilitate the clean-up efforts, President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration for the state of Connecticut, where Governor Dan Malloy said it appeared that most, if not all counties had been hit with record or near record snowfall. Some 25,000 people remained without power in the state, according to Connecticut Light and Power. The storm also took a human toll. A Massachusetts boy aged 11 died when he and his father were warming up in their car and inhaled carbon monoxide after an exhaust pipe had been blocked by snow. A car driven by a young woman went out of control in the snow on a highway in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, striking and killing a 74-year-old man who was walking on the shoulder of the road. Malloy was quoted by local media as saying there were five storm-related deaths in Connecticut and, according to reports, a fatal crash in Maine claimed another life. Minor injuries were reported in a 19-car pile-up on Interstate 295 in Falmouth, Maine, caused by poor visibility and slippery road conditions. The storm came a little over three months after Hurricane Sandy devastated swaths of New York and New Jersey, killing 132 people and causing damage worth some $US71.4 billion ($A69.8 billion). As the east coast slowly breathed a sigh of relief, the National Weather Service warned of a new blizzard taking aim at the US northern plains.