Danvers Blizzard: What You Need To Know In Saturday's Storm

DANVERS, MA — A snow emergency parking ban is in effect and all high school athletic events are canceled in Danvers for Saturday's powerful snowstorm.

The parking ban went into effect Friday night at 10 p.m. and was to continue indefinitely.

"This ban prohibits on-street parking throughout the town at any time," the Danvers Department of Public Works said. "This ban will remain in effect until all winter operations related to the coming storm are completed."

The Peabody Institute Library in Danvers is closed this Saturday and Sunday.

Danvers Electric has an outage mapping system that can be found here.

All high school sporting events and practices on Saturday are canceled.

National Grid and Eversource were preparing for the likelihood of power outages due to downed trees or limbs by positioning line and tree crews across the state – including hundreds on loan from other states.

Residents are advised to make sure cell phones and devices are fully charged.

Patch will post updates throughout what could be one of the biggest one-day snowfalls in recent North Shore history.

If you have any photos from the storm that you would like included in a possible gallery, send them — including the community where they were taken — to [email protected].

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)