CHENANGO COUNTY – With some areas of Chenango County receiving 40 inches of snow, road crews continue to battle against Wednesday night’s storm as the travel advisory is lifted and individuals return to work.

According to Chenango County Emergency Operations Manager A Wesley Jones, while reports vary on snow accumulation, according to the US National Weather Service in Binghamton, areas including Greene and Smithville received more than three feet, Afton, Bainbridge, Coventry, Guilford, Oxford, and Norwich were between two and three feet, and North Norwich and Sherburne were just below two feet.

Jones said with so much snow in such a short amount of time, officials made the call to ban travel because the roads weren’t in safe driving conditions on Thursday.

“The amount of snow that fell in such a short period of time is pretty unprecedented, the most recent storm that we had was in March of 2017 where we got similar amounts,” said Jones. “That storm fell over a longer period of time, and we had anticipated getting a large amount of snow so it wasn’t shocking like this one was.”

“It was a difficult decision to make because we didn’t want to shut anything down, but it just wasn’t safe yesterday morning.”