A woman walks along a street in the East Falls section of Philadelphia on Saturday. A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the East Coast to a standstill Saturday, dumping as much as 3 feet of snow and stranding tens of thousands of travelers.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvanians continue digging out from a major snowstorm that crippled a stretch of the turnpike.

The Capitol complex in Harrisburg and the Philadelphia and Reading state office buildings are closed for non-essential employees.

Many schools are closed today because crews are still clearing local roads.

Forecasters say 31.9 inches fell in Allentown, breaking the 1996 two-day snowfall record of 25.6 inches.

There was 22.4 inches in Philadelphia, matching the average snowfall for the season.

Authorities in Reading say a man apparently trapped in his running car by a snowplow deluge died of carbon monoxide poisoning during the storm.

The Berks County coroner’s office says 56-year-old David Perrotto was pronounced dead less than an hour after he was found Saturday night in Muhlenberg Township.

Assistant Chief Deputy John Hollenbach says Perrotto was apparently trying to dig out his car. Investigators believe he either was in the car with the motor running to take a break or to try to get out of the space when the plow came by and buried the car, blocking the exhaust and preventing him from exiting.

Police help expectant mother

A new Philadelphia mother said police helped her get to the delivery room after an ambulance became stuck during the near-record snowfall in the city.

Brittany Gillette, 21, said that her water broke at 5 a.m. Saturday and she feared she might not make it to a hospital.

She said she awoke her fiancé and her father, who tried for an hour to shovel a path for the car. The family then called an ambulance, which got as far as the street corner and got stuck.

“I was at the top of block and they told to walk to bottom because they couldn’t make it through with all the snow,” Gillette said. “By the time I got there, they got stuck in the snow, so we called the police and waited.”

Police picked up Gillette, her mother and fiancé Robert Robinson and took them to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she arrived at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and 13 hours later gave birth to Ka’lei Xaria Robinson, 7 pounds, 2 ounces.

Dayshift charge nurse Lacey Conaway said 19 babies were delivered at the hospital during the storm, a “surge” compared to a normal delivery day.

Blizzard causes roof collapse

The roof of a Dowingtown church caved in during Saturday’s blizzard, causing substantial damage and sending the pastor scrambling to get a video feed in place in time for Sunday services.

Pastor Lee Wiggins says the roof collapse caused more than $1 million in damage.