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the last snow of the season.
• "It's almost time to start planting a garden," Krizman said. "So I hope we're through with this."
• In St. Paul, Minn., where 7 inches of snow had fallen, 55-year-old Mario Showers was shoveling sidewalks around a downtown church.
• "With Minnesota, ain't no telling when the snow's gonna come, you know," said Showers. "The way I think about it is that, you've got four seasons, and every season brings about a change, you know. So, you've got to take the bitter with the sweet, that's all. So this is the bitter right now."
• As the storm moved through the Midwest, people in the Mid-Atlantic region were getting ready.
• "Well, I have an inclination to think that it's not going to be as bad as they say it is, but it probably will be. So, it's better to be prepared, just in case," said 33-year-old Ann Oulobo, who was stocking up on medicine and other necessities in Baltimore County, Md., after shopping for groceries earlier in the day.
• At the Food Lion in Staunton, Va., shelves that were stocked ahead of the storm were being cleared by customers.
• "Bread, milk, eggs and beer, all the necessities," manager Everett Castle said.
• Washington, D.C., could get 3 to 7 inches of snow, while the mountains of western Maryland could see 16 inches by Wednesday night. Minor tidal flooding was possible along the Delaware coast, the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the lower Potomac River, the National Weather Service said.
• As miserable as things could get for commuters, taxi driver Balwinder Singh of Herndon, Va., said he was looking forward to the storm.
• "People tip better in the snow," he said.
• As the heavy, wet snow fell in Chicago, residents were working their shovels and snow-blowers.
• Pat Reidy said she skipped work and did 40 minutes of yoga as a warm-up for the heavy lifting she was doing in her neighborhood near Wrigley Field.
• "I'm trying to avoid a heart attack," the 52-year-old finance worker said.
• Mike Morawski, 53, was helping clear the sidewalk in front an older neighbor's home.
• "We don't want her digging out," he said. "She's a tender, little woman, a piano teacher. She doesn't need to be shoveling."
• Chicago's love-thy-neighbor ethos has its limits, though. With the winter blast, Morawski expected the return of an old city tradition in which residents clear a parking space and keep it reserved with a lawn chair.

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