It got much worse elsewhere, though. Winds were so bad down around the coasts that waves crashed over the seawalls and some places got flooded. I just found out a kid died of carbon monoxide poisoning because of a problem with the heater in the car he was in (apparently the tailpipes were blocked by snow). I definitely feel lucky, all things considered, because the worst in my area was just the two-foot-high snowbanks that had to be shoveled.