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(Enlarge) Wearing his coat and booties, Walter Stanley Garcia, a chihuahua-terrier mix, braves The Avenue in Hampden on Feb. 6 with his master, Scout DeBartolo, after a massive snowstorm. The locals managed to get around, one on snowshoes, and several businesses opened, including Cafe Hon, whose owner, Denise Whiting was in the Caribbean. (Staff photo by Matt Roth)

The year-round, Saturday farmers market on 32nd Street in Waverly never once closed because of the weather in the 12 years that Marc Rey has been president of the board.

That is, until this winter, when two major storms Dec. 19 and Feb. 6 shut it down. It's been a blow to many vendors, for whom it is a main source of winter income, Rey said.

"And we pride ourselves on staying open," he added. "But you reach a point where it becomes impossible."

It may be impossible Feb. 13, too, if forecasts of another storm are correct, even as north Baltimoreans dug out of a storm that dumped more than two feet on the region.

Some Roland Park residents were among thousands around the region who lost power during the storm.

In the tiny community of Kernwood -- about 50 houses one block from Cold Spring Lane and York Road -- Dori Witt, 30, an educational advisor at Johns Hopkins University, was still snowed in Feb. 8 on the 4600 block of Kernwood Avenue. The streets around her were unpassable, and snow plows created a wall of snow that blocked Eastway.

A friend from Detroit, who used to live in Baltimore and comes back each year to host a Super Bowl party, stayed at their house this year -- and was still stuck there, Witt said.

Resilient residents dug themselves out. Richard Brown, of Hampden, used his snow blower on Elm Avenue for the first time since he bought it about four years ago.

But there were casualties large and small. Brown's shed roof and the awning in his back yard collapsed.

And a major limb on Union Memorial Hospital's famed weeping Japanse cherry tree broke. The tree, a national landmark, was gifted to the hospital by the notorious mobster Al Capone, according to hospital spokeswoman Debra Schindler.

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