reporter: melisa argueta taking matters into her own hands, removing a couple of space savers next to her house. >> i am totally for it, if you shuttle it its yours for 48 hours, but other than that its ridiculous. reporter: but in some of the city' s most congested neighborhoods, the deep seeded practice has its own logic. >> right now. its nothing. you know what i mean. come 4 o'clock in the morning it might be a different story. reporter: the city says, you can report illegal space savers to boston' s 311 by phone or on line. crews from public works will toss them on trash day. if not, sooner. maria: it looks like that all day long. snow and ocean spray and it is kind of a nasty scene. as mike pointed out, known as serious as the high tide that look at that. he would think i' m showing you a storm. look how far away the track was. the western fringe got into the area toward southeastern massachusetts during the first two thirds of the day. there was a blizzard warning for southeastern massachusetts. wind gusting at 35 miles per hour frequently. visibility down to one quarter of a m