But some workers questioned why certain employees stayed in cushy hotel rooms while other slept in dorm rooms and makeshift beds in dining halls.
"We should be treated better because we left our families to stay here for the students," Lia Fajardo says, a dining hall worker in Quincy house who stayed Monday night in Quincy House suite.
"Last time there was a blizzard, they sent us to a hotel. We went to a restaurant and then gave the bill to the manager," she says.
This time, the student room where Fajardo stayed was missing sheets, pilows, and pillowcases. Anna Braga, the other HUDS staffer who stayed in the Quincy suite, had to go get sheets from a room of supplies for Quincy staff.
Last night though, Braga made the half hour commute to her home in Everett.
"I'll be happy to see my two year old grand daughter," she says.
But for HUDS, the problems posed by the "storm of the century" are far from over.
"From our standpoint, we're still in the middle of this," McNitt says. "We've still got to serve breakfast tomorrow."