Driving snow and punishing winds battered Eastern Massachusetts beginning Friday afternoon, prompting a mass retreat that jammed public transit, emptied the highways, and had New Englanders hunkered down to await the teeth of a potentially historic storm.
In a rare move that underscored the nor’easter’s danger, Governor Deval Patrick ordered nearly all traffic banned from Massachusetts roads beginning at 4 p.m., the first such travel ban since the devastating Blizzard of ’78. Only public works and public safety employees, utility workers, and the news media were allowed to travel.
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