Rome Struggles With More Snow People used government shovels to clear piazzas and children enjoyed another day off school as Rome awoke to about 10 centimeters (4 inches) of fresh snow. The second snowfall in two days - a rare event in Italy's capital - left St. Peter's Basilica covered in a dazzling white mantle on Saturday. But it also left Romans with few buses and taxis. Some adults used their hands to dig out their cars. But others accepted 4,000 shovels handed out by Civil Protection agency volunteers in piazzas. Temperatures were expected to dip below freezing again in the usually temperate city at nightfall. North of Rome, passengers who were evacuated from a Sardinia-bound ferry after wind banged their ship into a dock in Civitavecchia spent hours aboard other ferries in hope of departing.