(Bloomberg) -- New York and New Jersey restored transportationservices on Sunday and strove to be ready for a near-normalworkweek, while Washington was a little slower to overcome theblizzard that blanketed parts of the Mid-Atlantic region with twofeet of snow.

Stock, bond, and commodities markets in New York are planning tooperate on regular schedules Monday, spokeswomen said. InWashington, the House of Representatives canceled all votesscheduled for this week because of the severity of the storm, whilethe Senate postponed to Wednesday from Tuesday a vote to confirmJohn M. Vazquez as a district judge for New Jersey.

The Washington-to-New York corridor is recovering from a weekendstorm that brought the region to a standstill, cut power to severalhundred thousand customers, and was blamed for at least 18 deaths.By the time the snow stopped falling in New York on Saturday night,it measured 26.8 inches (68 cm) deep in Central Park. That’s thesecond-most logged after a single storm and just 0.1 inches shy ofthe record set in February 2006.

The blizzard picked up steam after traveling across the Southand Midwest. It dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of Ohio,North Carolina and Kentucky before hitting the Mid- Atlantic andNortheast with full force Saturday morning. West Virginia,Pennsylvania and Maryland logged some of the heaviest snowfallwhile Massachusetts was largely spared precipitation of themagnitude it sustained last winter.

Air services were resuming in New York on Sunday, but two ofWashington’s three airports remained closed.

American Airlines Group Inc. canceled more than 1,600 flightsscheduled for Sunday as its operations remained closed at the majorairports in New York and Washington, the company said in ane-mailed statement. Southwest Airlines Co. canceled about 550flights on Sunday and 40 on Monday, according to its website. DeltaAir Lines Inc. resumed operations in New York and Philadelphia onSunday and expects flights to and from Washington will beginMonday.

Ban lifted

Buses began plying New York’s streets, bridges and tunnelsSunday morning as a travel ban was lifted, while the Metro-NorthRailroad and above-ground subway service was gradually restored,according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website.Service was suspended on the Long Island Railroad as the line,which serves the area to the east of the city, struggled with railyards buried in snow, frozen switches and stalled trains.

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“Today is going to be a very intense clean up day,” New YorkCity Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an interview on ABC’s “This WeekWith George Stephanopoulos” Sunday. “We think we’ll be broadly upand running again at the city tomorrow.” The city’s alternate-sideparking rules will be suspended through Friday to facilitate snowremoval, de Blasio said at a news conference.

Workers clear the tracks of snow at the Port Washingtonbranch of the Long Island Railroad, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in PortWashington, N.Y.. Service is suspended on the Port Washingtonbranch due to the recent snow storm. (AP Photo/KathyKmonicek)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on CNN’s "State of theUnion" Sunday that about 22,000 people in two areas of the statewere without electricity at 8 a.m. and that most would have powerrestored by the end of the day. No storm-related deaths have beenreported in the state, he said.

‘No problem’

“All of New Jersey’s roadways are open this morning. New JerseyTransit, buses, and light rail will be ready by noon today,”Christie said. “When we get to our morning rush tomorrow morning,we will be ready to go with no problem at all.”

The Washington area’s Metro subway system plans to reopen someunderground routes at 7 a.m. Monday, according to its website.Metro won’t charge fares for the day. Service will still beunavailable to many key Washington-area locations, including railroutes that link to Ronald Reagan National Airport and the Pentagonin suburban Virginia. The system may expand service “as conditionsallow.”

Snow totaled 29.2 inches at Baltimore-Washington InternationalAirport, the most since Baltimore began keeping records in 1892.Cleanup efforts on roads are still under way. “We urge motorist toNOT drive unless it’s absolutely necessary,” the MarylandTransportation Authority tweeted on Sunday morning.

School closings

Most public and charter schools in Washington and its suburbswill be closed Monday, according to the District of Columbia PublicSchools’ website.

Many schools in the Philadelphia area will also remain closedMonday, according to local media reports. The SoutheasternPennsylvania Transportation Authority, which serves the city andits suburbs, restored some bus and trolley service Sundayafternoon. It expects regional rail lines, which remain suspended,will operate Monday morning with delays, it said in a pressrelease.

New York City schools will be open, De Blasio said.

Flights resumed at New York’s three main airports. The stormwiped out at least 13,000 trips in the Northeast, a tally that’slikely to rise as some airlines pre-emptively scrapped flightsscheduled for Monday, data tracker FlightAware.com said Sunday inan e-mailed statement.

LaGuardia hit

LaGuardia Airport was the most affected New York airport withmore than three quarters of flights grounded, according toFlightAware. At least half the flights at Newark LibertyInternational Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airportwere canceled.

Washington’s Dulles International and Reagan National airportswill remain closed on Sunday, spokeswoman Kimberly Gibbs said.Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall planned toreopen Sunday afternoon but airport officials cautioned on itsTwitter account that “airlines will be slow to get back on track.”Its website showed a few flights scheduled to depart or arrive lateSunday.

A vehicle pushes up pikes of snow after trucks dump theirloads of snow in the parking lots of RFK Stadium in Washington,Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, as the nation's capital digs out following amonster weekend snow. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Several dozen flights between Europe and the U.S. East Coastwere canceled or delayed. British Airways canceled six London toNew York flights and all three Washington bound services Sunday,according to its website, which shows three other flights subjectto delays. Virgin Atlantic canceled three flights from London toWashington and New York. Both carriers said flights to Bostonwere operating with delays.

European flights

Flights from Continental Europe also were scrapped, with 10inbound and outbound New York and Washington flights canceled inZurich and Air France eliminating 12 flights to the U.S. East Coastover the weekend. Lufthansa canceled 14 inbound and outboundU.S.-Germany flights Sunday, disrupting service at Frankfurt,Dusseldorf and Munich. The Swedish carrier SAS canceled itsWashington and New York services to and from Copenhagen and OsloSunday. Moscow Sheremetyevo airport said on its website that twoAeroflot flights to New York were canceled today while two othersflew on schedule.

Services that offer deliveries to city dwellers suffereddisruptions during the storm and were seeking to placate customersas operations returned to normal.

‘Sporadic deliveries’

GrubHub Inc., which delivers restaurant food under its own brandand also as Seamless, said it’s refunding orders that wentunfilled. The company is speaking with restaurants “to stay up-to-date as they choose to re-open,” spokeswoman Katie Norris saidin an e-mail.

Online grocer Fresh Direct Holdings Inc. is making “onlysporadic deliveries in Manhattan,” according to spokeswoman AmandaCortese Vogel. She said it would resume normal operations for NewYork City, its suburbs and Philadelphia on Monday. The company isworking with government officials to donate food it couldn’tdeliver to organizations including City Harvest and the Food Bankfor New York City.

The storm brought more business to some vendors. Percy’s BBQ& Darts in New York’s East Village on Saturday welcomed a surgeof thirsty customers who braved the blizzard to find their nearestbar, Steven Smith, the venue’s general manager, said by phone. Alsoon Sunday, the tavern was filling up more quickly than normal asthe New England Patriots and Denver Broncos squared off in apost-season football game, he said.

“There’s a lot of small apartments in the area that peopleshare, and many of them just want to get out,” Smith said. “But ofcourse, in that weather, you’re limited to how far you canwalk.”

--With assistance from Kathleen Miller and Jeremy Hodges.

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