State Rep. Bill MacGregor, who represents West Roxbury and a smidge of Brookline, says he'll send a $5 JP Licks gift card to any young'un in Boston or Brookline who shovels out a hydrant when it's safe to do so after the weekend storm then has a parent take a photo on Instagram, tagged @votebillmacgregor and fills out a form.

Mary Ellen headed over to the West Roxbury Star Market this evening and, as you can see, was confronted with some pretty empty bread shelves in advance of Saturday's storm, which in the annals of New England storms, doesn't seem like it'll be a blockbuster or anything, but, you know, it's been like two years now since we've last gotten major snow, so God only knows how bad it'll get.

Ari Ofsevit spotted the staff at the Fletcher Maynard Academy on Windsor Street in Cambridge preparing for snow season this morning.

The National Weather Service posted this map of snowfall totals in southern New England.

The analysis uses interpolation methods, so it may not perfectly reflect your back yard. Still, clearly shows the huge differences in short distances.

This afternoon, Michael Campbell was in East Boston, watching the Amis Treasure come through Boston Harbor on its way to the Chelsea salt pile on Chelsea Creek with a fresh load of Chilean salt, picked up from the Punta Patache Terminal in Chile.

MassDOT today announced a flurry of new names for its snow-plow and salting trucks, selected from entries by public-school kids across the state: Flurry Fighter, Luke Snowalker, Plower Ranger, Sherlock Snowmes, Snowdrop, Arctic Beast, Sled Zeppelin, Snow day No Way, Blizzard Wizard, Snow Big Deal, Snow Time to Lose, and Blizzard of Oz. Read more.

NBC Boston reports the snowstorm and something going on at Delta in particular left lots of grumpy people spending the night at Logan, where workers set up cots in Terminal A. Read more.

Our own Cybah took some video of the snow that wasn't supposed to fall on Chelsea, or anywhere else within 128, but did (update: Or didn't, since it was graupel): Read more.