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Gusty winds blow snow through the air at Sugarloaf on Jan. 30, the day after a blizzard blanketed the area with more than a foot of snow.

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A person waits for the bus in downtown Portland during a winter storm on Jan. 7.

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Carter Hering of Portland enthusiastically shovels out a parking spot for his car along the Eastern Promenade on Feb. 4. Hering, who lives in the West End but rented an Airbnb for family members, said that their flights were canceled so he decided to have a vacation on the other end of town.

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A fresh dusting of snow covers the dock at Camp Ellis in Saco on Jan. 25.

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From left, Wyatt Dana, Tahn Tiparos, Lucas Doiron and Cole Walter play a game of makeshift ice hockey with a boot as the goal at Capisic Pond in Portland on Jan. 26.

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A shopping cart left by a pile of snow in a bleak parking lot scene in South Portland on Jan. 27.

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A plow truck clears snow and slush from a northbound lane of the Maine Turnpike in Biddeford on Feb. 4.

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Wayne Larochelle of Saco walks along the frost-covered sand in Old Orchard Beach on Jan. 27.

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Warm beverages help, as a woman walking past a Metro bus on Elm Street in Portland knows.

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A surfer rides a wave backlit by the sun at Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk on Jan. 24.

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Ducks huddle in South Portland, near where the Fore River joins Portland Harbor, at the end of January. Ducks, like many birds, use a countercurrent heat exchange system between the arteries and veins in their legs to keep their feet from freezing. Their legs have tendons and bones instead of muscles and nerves like mammals.

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A pedestrian walks down Free Street in downtown Portland on Jan. 31.

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Bundled up beachgoers make their way along the shore at Old Orchard Beach shortly before sunset on Jan. 22.

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Pedestrians walk past piles of snow toward the Maine Mall on a bitterly cold night in South Portland on Jan. 27.

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Ice forms an abstract pattern on Kimball Brook in Hinckley Park, South Portland.

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Sea smoke rises around lobster boats moored in Cape Porpoise harbor during low single digit temperatures on Jan. 27.

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A pedestrian walks up Deering Avenue in Portland during a winter storm on Jan. 7.

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