Philadelphia got 28.5 inches of snow Saturday, just shy of the record 30.7 inches during the January 1996 blizzard. Snow totals were even higher to the west, with 31 inches recorded in Upper Strasburg and 30 inches in Somerset.
About 190,000 customers lost power in western Pennsylvania, and more than 100,000 remained without power at midday Sunday. Gov. Ed Rendell has declared a disaster emergency.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office said a 60-year-old man and his 19-year-old daughter were found dead at 12:18 a.m. Sunday in their suburban Pittsburgh home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. Officials say they had been using a generator for heat because there was no power at their home in McKeesport, about 15 miles east of the city.
Blood tests will determine whether they died of carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas that can be produced by heaters and generators and can be deadly if used in an area that is not properly ventilated. An autopsy is also planned on a 57-year-old city resident found dead Saturday evening after shoveling the sidewalk at his sister's home.
Also in the western part of the state, investigators were trying to determine what caused the derailment of 113 cars of a 130-car train carrying coal at 2:45 a.m. Saturday. The derailment affected a stretch of track from Cumberland to Pittsburgh, but no one was injured, CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said.
At Philadelphia International Airport, where nearly all flights were canceled Saturday, officials said most airlines were back to operating a full schedule, except for Southwest Airlines, which had canceled all flights into and out of the airport.
Philadelphia authorities said most public transportation had resumed, and authorities in Pittsburgh said limited bus service had been restored across Allegheny County. The Port Authority of Allegheny County said the light rail system was still shut down but announced Sunday afternoon that bus shuttles were operating along bus routes.
In Philadelphia, all building managers were asked to check their properties for large icicles or other hazards to pedestrians below. The area around one downtown high-rise was cordoned off until icicles could be removed, and pedestrians were asked to keep a wary eye upward.
In the aftermath of the storm, students on both ends of the state were granted a snow day Monday. The Philadelphia School District said all schools in the 161,000-student district would be closed, and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said its 45,000 students in the city would also have a day off. A similar announcement was posted for the 26,000 students in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
Jurij Bilyk, 48, was clearing snow from the front of his garage because he was on call as an eye surgeon at Wills Eye medical center in Philadelphia, which has an emergency room that can be hopping on holidays.
"Usually, the biggest days are New Year's Eve and July Fourth because of firecrackers," he said. "Car accidents, fights - a lot of its fights. Super Bowl isn't too bad if the Eagles aren't playing."
Takeo Takahashi, 41, was dusting snow off his mountain bike in the city's Fairmount neighborhood, where he had ridden from his West Philadelphia home to visit a friend. He planned to take the train Monday to his job in Ambler.
"I'm already dug out, but I'm not moving my car," he said. "Where am I going to park?"
Julius Stokes, 22, of North Philadelphia, was digging a fresh path to his Dodge Ram pickup truck, which he had used all Saturday to free the cars of friends and relatives. He works fixing broken water mains but didn't know what to expect Monday morning. "It's hard to find a broken main in this," he said as he attacked the 2-foot-high snow.
The frigid temperatures and snowy, icy streets did not deter Patrick Duffy, 23, who is training for the Pittsburgh Marathon in May. He was about two hours into a planned 30-mile training run, which he admitted was going slower than usual.
"I'm trying not to fall. I haven't fallen yet," Duffy said.
In Mount Lebanon, a suburb south of Pittsburgh, Robb and Meredith Hartlage, were again trying to clear about 100 feet of sidewalk in front of their corner house.
"We did a couple hours yesterday. I would say about four hours mixed with sledding," said Robb Hartlage, 40, who said he's not too old to play in the snow. He acknowledged, however, that the shoveling was hard work.
"I made some old man noises when I got out of bed," he said.
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Associated Press writers Patrick Walters in Philadelphia and Dan Nephin in Pittsburgh contributed to this report.