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Boats were staged and ready to enter the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the annual New England Boat Show as machines removed snow from the parking lot following the weekend's blizzard.

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Boston firefighter recruits Tom Nee (left) and Pat McKenna shoveled out a hydrant on Columbus Avenue.

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Mark Lyons of Feeney Excavation Corporation headed back to his machine to move snow on top of a snow farm at the company's location in Dorchester. Snow was being removed from the streets of Boston and trucked to Feeney and other locations in the city to melt.