More than a Foot of Snow Blankets Putnam

Here, St. John the Evangelist Church in Mahopac is cleared during the height of the storm.

Whether you had to put on your, boots, hats, and gloves and brave the storm to shovel snow or head out to a job you couldn’t phone-in for, or if you stayed in your PJs and slippers and sipped cocoa while watching the snow fall from the great indoors, there was not a person in Putnam County who could avoid the dose of winter weather the region saw Jan. 25.

A state of emergency was declared across the state, the county, and in many individual towns and villages from Saturday night to Monday mid-day, asking people to stay off the roads to allow highway department crews to clear them, and to keep out of the way of first responders who may be called out.

Snowfall rates hit up to 3 inches per hour, with totals between 12 and 18 inches reported from Cold Spring to Brewster.