Thomas Koch, mayor of Quincy, Mass., called the powerful speedboat “really almost like a little storm with snow.”
Quincy is south of Boston.
“We’re expecting somewhere between 9 [a.m. ET] and short-term absolute loss conditions where everything stops,” he said in a CNN interview.
Quincy is a coastal city south of Boston.
“The big problem I see is that we have to get our streets open again,” he said. “There is no doubt that we will lose control for a while. There’s no way the tractors can work when they can’t see in front of us. So when you’re talking about 2-3 feet of snow, that’s a lot of snow, and with 70 mph winds, we’re looking at 6- to 8-foot slides,” he said.
When discussing flood concerns, the mayor said the town had a new breakwater that was 2 feet taller than its old wall.
The city was prepared to call for an evacuation but “the first tide is now high; we think we’ll be fine,” he said, though officials are watching for the next cycle. There have been no major emergencies so far, the mayor added.
Eastern Massachusetts, which is under a blizzard warning, could see up to 30 inches of snow in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
