Scenes from Wednesday’s nor’easter

Pictured: Jason Auer worked in the snow cleaning a relative’s house in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, N.Y.

Snow fell in Newton as the Angier Elementary School got out at the beginning of the nor’easter. Amy DiMarzio and her 5-year-old daughter, Kate, left the school when the wind and snow were blowing hard.

Pedestrians in Boston were tossed by strong winds on Stuart Street, near the John Hancock Tower. A trio held onto each other and a light pole as eventually one fell down in a gust.

A man walked his dogs through the snow in Jersey City, N.J.

A snowman was already built on the campus of Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn.

It was NOT skateboard weather for 11-year-old Joey Cohen as he waited to be picked up after school in Newton.

Snow-covered clothes hanging outside a home in Staten Island, N.Y., which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy,

Eight-year-old Diego Firmo tried to catch some snowflakes with his tongue as school got out in Newton.

Brandon Kyle, right, a member of the National Guard, handed out blankets donated by the American Red Cross to workers in Little Ferry, N.J., helping a resident clean up his flooded house as snow fell from the nor’easter.

A girl struggled with an unbrella in the wind and snow on Park Avenue in Manhattan.