Winter Storm Juno has been hitting the East Coast with varying ferocity over the last couple days. Schools and businesses across the region have been closed, but the photos of people having a great time outside are not in short supply.

Whether it's a group of guys playing football at Harvard...

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To a family spending some quality time together in Boston...

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To more people than I've ever seen sledding at one time in Brooklyn's Prospect Park...

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To a snowball fight in Times Square...

in Times Square on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 18 to 24 inches of snow to the area.
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Even the dogs were having a blast...

Winter Storm Juno
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The storm was terrible in some places and not nearly what was expected in others, but these pictures speak volumes. Fun and time together are two things we could all use more of... it's just too bad it takes a blizzard...

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