A surprise March 8 storm dumped inches of snow on Massachusetts, shutting down schools and ravaging coastal homes. Take a look at the scenes from around the area.

Pictured: Sidewalks were not an option on Washington Street in Newton, so pedestrians shared the road with cars.

A house ravaged by the storm fell off its foundation on Plum Island. Homeowners Stephen and Sharon Bresnahan held each other in front of their fallen home as it was torn down.

The first house on Anapolis Way ravaged by the storm on Plum Island was torn down by an excavator. Its remains lay near the beach as curious onlookers got close to watch.

The kitchen cabinets of the first house are seen through an open wall.

Another view of the first house being torn down.

Residents removed a wood stove through a hole in the wall of an Anapolis Way waterfront home.

Sisters Abbie (rear)and Jane Batchelder embraced under their deck as they surveyed the damage to the beachfront home next to the second house that was torn down.

Emotional neighbors of homeowners Stephen and Sharon Bresnahan watched the Bresnahan’s house being torn down.

An excavator tore down one of the homes.

Homeowners Stephen Bresnahan saved some deck furniture minutes before the house was torn down.

Globe photographer David Ryan shot aerial views of the storm’s damage to the coast along the waterfront on Plum Island.

An entire deck was torn off from a home on the shoreline.

Square stone barriers on the beach did little to help prevent the erosion of the shoreline.

Construction equipment was used to lower blocks onto the beach to protect the homes.

Another view of the coast damage on Plum Island.

This house was pulled into the surf from the force of the storm’s winds.

A closer shot of a house that fell into the surf on Plum Island. Pounding surf from the storm pulled two houses off of their foundations on March 8.

Another view of the house coming off of its foundation.

The house was ultimately torn down.

Pounding surf whipped up by a strong ocean storm ripped another home on Plum Island from its foundations on March 8.

The damage to the house highlighted concerns about coastal flooding from the storm, which has also dumped nearly 12 inches of snow in some parts of the state, snarling the morning commute and forcing the closure of hundreds of schools.

The Plum Island house toppled on Annapolis Way. A refrigerator apparently belonging to the house floated in the waves.

One of the homes pulled off its foundation on Plum Island during the storm was torn down on March 9.

A person watched as the home on Plum Island was torn apart a day after the storm.

A refrigerator was taken out of a Plum Island home damaged during the storm on March 9.

Biking to work was not an option in Central Square in Cambridge.

A problem with the T had communters jammed up under bus shelters on Massachusetts Avenue.

Many neighborhoods in Scituate were flooded on March 8.

The house and others near it had been protected by giant sandbags that the ocean had no trouble surmounting.

A whole neighborhood in Scituate was flooded on March 8.

Waves crashed along the shoreline in Scituate on March 7.

Spray from the waves hit a seawall by a home on Glades Road in Scituate.

Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast in Scituate.

Rocks were thrown up onto Atlantic Ave by the waves in Cohasset.

Jerusalem Road in Cohasset was flooded.

Oceanside Drive in Scituate was closed.

There was some flooding on Tenth Avenue in Scituate.

A Scituate police officer drove through the water on Oceanside Drive.

Waves crashed along the Scituate shoreline on March 7 during the first of three high-tide cycles expected during the storm.