Thomas Koch, mayor of Quincy, Mass., called the powerful nor’easter “really almost a minor hurricane with snow.”Quincy is south of Boston. “We are expecting somewhere between 9 [a.m. ET] and noontime absolute whiteout conditions where things will come to a halt,” he said in a CNN interview. Quincy is a coastal city south of Boston. The “big issue that I see is us getting our streets back opened up again,” he said. “There’s no question that we’re going to lose control for a period of time. There’s no way plows can operate when they can’t see in front of their face. So when you are talking 2-3 feet of snow, that’s a lot of snow, and with 70 mph winds, we’re looking at 6- to 8-foot drifts,” he said.When discussing concerns over flooding, the mayor said the town has a new seawall that is 2 feet higher than its old one. The city is prepared to call for evacuations but “the first tide is high now; we think we’re going to be OK,” he said, though officials are watching for the next cycle. There have been no major emergencies so far, the mayor added. Eastern Massachusetts, which is under a blizzard warning, could see up to 30 inches of snow in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.