Post-Sandy "suckerpunch storm" dumps rain, snow on areas recovering from superstorm Updated at 8:37 a.m. NEW YORK The nor'easter that interrupted recovery efforts from Superstorm Sandy pulled away from New York and New Jersey Thursday morning, leaving a blanket of thick, wet snow that snapped storm-weakened trees and downed power lines. Households from Brooklyn to storm-battered sections of the Jersey shore and Connecticut that had waited for days without power because of Sandy were plunged back into darkness in temperatures near freezing. The nor'easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain and snow, but so far not the flooding that was anticipated. Still, in Belmar, N.J., snow was not a welcome sight, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reported on "CBS This Morning" Thursday. A generator runs Belmar resident Nick Symchik's one light and computer. He's gone 10 days without power and is using his oven to heat his house. "At some point you're going to want to go to sleep at night and you're not going to want to be frozen, so, you know, you leave it on and, you know, you kinda roll the dice," Symchik said. Mayors along the coast vowed that this so-called "suckerpunch storm" would be just a brief pause in the cleanup, Tracy reports. Nor'easter: The latest update CBS News hurricane consultant David Bernard reports the storm is moving to the east, delivering 60 mph winds in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and strong winds in Boston, but not before dumping 13 inches of snow in Freehold, N.J., and 4.7 inches in New York's Central Park. Overall, the storm is expected to move out to sea by Thursday night or Friday morning. Roads in New Jersey were clear for the morning commute, and rail lines into New York City were running smoothly so far, despite snow still coming down heavily in some areas. Elena McDonnell didn't waste energy worrying about the newest storm, not after living through Sandy last week and still without power in her Staten Island home. "It isn't scary at all," the 42-year-old said. This is nothing. Under ordinary circumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal. But large swaths of the landscape were still an open wound, with the electrical system highly fragile and many of Sandy's victims still mucking out their homes and cars and shivering in the deepening cold. As the storm picked up in intensity Wednesday evening, lights started flickering off again. Mark L. Fendrick, of Staten Island, shared his frustration with others on Twitter Wednesday night, saying: Consolidated Edison, the chief utility in New York City, said the nor'easter knocked out power to another 55,000 customers in New York City and neighboring Westchester County, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports. When the storm hit on Wednesday, Con Ed crews were still working to restore 67,000 customers from Sandy. The nor'easter was almost too much for Staten Island resident Lauren Destephano to bear. "I cried all day and didn't do much, and now I picked up, put my boots back on and started all over again," Destephano told WCBS-TV. In her Midland Beach neighborhood, there are still mounds of garbage, WCBS-TV reports. The city and private carters have picked up 130,000 tons of garbage and household debris. Some of it is piled in 20-foot mounds in a parking lot along the storm-ravaged beach. Residents from Connecticut to Rhode Island saw 3 to 6 inches of snow on Wednesday. Worcester, Mass., had a whopping 8 inches of snow, and Freehold, N.J., had just over a foot overnight. Good news was mixed with the bad, however: temperatures over the next few days will be in the 50s in southern New England, said meteorologist Frank Nocera, and on Sunday it could edge into the 60s. In New York and New Jersey, rain and 60 mph wind gusts blew Wednesday evening. Not everybody was hunkering down. Katie Wilford was leaving her Brick Township home near Barnegat Bay as the nor'easter approached. She bundled her sons Nick, 14, and Matthew, 10, into the minivan in search of an open motel. "It's a little overwhelming," she said. I can't believe we're doing this again. We're going on Day 10 with no power. That's a long time. I just want the sun to come out and things to be normal again. All construction in New York City was halted - a precaution that needed no explanation after a crane collapsed last week in Sandy's high winds and dangled menacingly over the streets of Manhattan. Drivers were advised to stay off the road after 5 p.m. and part of the busy Long Island Expressway was shut down in both directions because of icing. About 6:30 p.m., the Long Island Rail Road suspended service in and out of Penn Station. Nor'easter turns U.S. travel upside-down By early Thursday, more than 292,700 homes and business in New York state were without power, and another 403,000 in New Jersey lacked electricity. In some areas, the numbers began climbing again Wednesday evening.