article_snippet: A woman hides out beneath an umbrella as A woman crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in New York snowfall on Friday .
article_snippet: Hiding: Manhattan can barely be seen through the fog and snow from the Staten Island Ferry on Friday .
article_snippet: Terry said that of all the cities, New York will get hit the hardest.
article_snippet: I wished I would have blocked the numbers from friends back in Southern California texting me screenshots of the 80-plus degree weather there,' said Matt Guerrieri who just moved to Boston.
article_snippet: But the snow that has already fallen didn't bury Bostonians' collective sense of humor.
article_snippet: Mayor Marty Walsh tweeted that the Boston yeti - a local who's been dressing up as the abominable snowman and walking around the city drawing laughs - would be taking over as interim mayor.
article_snippet: Bruce Mendelsohn, a Cambridge public relations executive, quipped, 'Boston has a rich tradition of leading the nation in the pursuit of liberty, freedom, sports titles and snowplows.'