We almost made it in the national news haha, but nearby town, Newark Valley, got 44”, got the most in this huge east coast storm. We got about 20”
Interior areas of Pennsylvania and New York state took the brunt of the heavy snow – more than 40 inches in many towns. The highest total recorded was 44 inches in Newark Valley, New York, a tiny village about 10 miles from Binghamton. Binghamton had officially seen a whopping 40 inches as of midday Thursday, though other measurements around the city were as high as 42 inches. Flabbergasted residents of the region were digging out, either by snowblower, snowplow or shovel. Or they waited inside their homes for the snow to stop.
Robert Arone uses a snowblower to clear the snow from his driveway in Sloatsburg, New York, on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.
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A National Weather Service spokesperson said the storm set a two-day snowfall record in Binghamton. The previous record was recorded March 2017 – 35.3 inches. Weather Service meteorologist Lily Chapman called the snow amounts around Binghamton “overwhelming,” according to the Capital Weather Gang.
In nearby Ithaca, New York, it took Fred Cullin, 23, more than an hour and a half to dig his way out of his steep, lakeside driveway at
fter it was packed with nearly 3 feet of snow piled up by plows.
