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Photos: Residents And Workers Dig Out, Clean Up After Blizzard
![Paul Rugg digs out of his sea-sprayed house on Foster Street in the Brandt Rock area of Marshfield. He had to climb out the window in order to open the front door. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after01-1000x666.jpg)
Eastern Massachusetts residents are digging out and cleaning up after a blizzard dumped more than 2 feet of snow on a wide swath of the region. Meanwhile, coastal residents discovered the ocean's icy waters breached sea walls, leaving many homes damaged.
![Paul Rugg digs out of his sea-sprayed house on Foster Street in the Brandt Rock area of Marshfield. He had to climb out the window in order to open the front door. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after01.jpg)
![The breached wall at Brant Rock in Marshfield. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after04.jpg)
![A house damaged in the Brant Rock area of Marshfield. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after05.jpg)
![The seawall at Green Harbor in Marshfield was breached and caused damage to houses. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after03.jpg)
![One of the many homes damaged on Brant Rock in Marshfield due to the breach in the seawall. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after07.jpg)
![Many homes were damaged due to a breach in the seawall during the blizzard. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after09.jpg)
![One of the many homes damaged on Brant Rock in Marshfield due to the breach in the seawall. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after08.jpg)
![One of the many homes damaged on Brant Rock in Marshfield due to the breach in the seawall. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after06.jpg)
![Workers repair downed power lines on Ocean Street in Marshfield on Wednesday. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_blizzard-day-after02.jpg)
![Juan Mendoza shovels snow as businesses prepare to open up on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_diggingout_rl08.jpg)
![A loader piles snow into a snow melting machine on Harry Agganis Way by Boston University. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_diggingout_rl05.jpg)
![Cambridge’s Kimberley Simonsen uses a snowblower to dig out Wednesday. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_diggingout_rl01.jpg)
![Mac McCreight clears the snow from around his daughter’s car in Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_diggingout_rl03.jpg)
![A dump truck carries snow to a "snow farm." Bostonians may be struggling with where to put the more than two feet of snow that accumulated during the storm. (Delores Handy/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_delores-snow-farm1.jpg)
![A mailbox on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/01/0128_diggingout_rl07.jpg)
This article was originally published on January 28, 2015.