On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast resigned, struggling to live another day in wait for utility crews to resume electricity connection after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.

Parts of New York are reported to receive more than 2 feet of snow while some areas of coastal New England were drenched with flooding rains.

One man was killed by a falling snow-laden tree branch in Central Park in New York City, and two people in Candia, N.H., died in a house fire, fire officials revealed.

The highest wind reported from the storm was 91 mph off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. — exceeding hurricane force of 74 mph. Gusts also hit 60 mph or more from the mountains of West Virginia to New York's Long Island and Massachusetts.

New Hampshire's electrical grid was revealed to be the hardest hit, reporting more than a quarter-million customers still devoid of electricity. New York had more than 160,000 outages and Maine about 67,000.

Moreover, some residents were warned they'll be without power supply for up to a week, as uprooted trees and fallen utility poles are posing difficulty for utility crews.