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NEAR-WORST STORM OVER

Sheriff Lowers

Travel Advisory

CCS cross-country coach Jessie Ravage saw the overnight storm as an opportunity for fun, and was off on her cross-country skies through Cooperstown's streets. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Dave Karpovich's snowblower threw an icy plume into the crisp, cold air this morning.

COOPERSTOWN – Pretty much everything came to standstill in Otsego County today, after a snowfall that rivalled the worst dumped almost 30 inches on us overnight.

The worst of the worst just missed us: “Endicott got a tad over 40 inches,” David Mattice, the National Weather Service observer in Oneonta, said a few minutes ago.

“There were not a lot of accidents, but we got a lot of cars that were stuck or abandoned,” county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. said this afternoon, as he was about to reduce his “No Unnecessary Travel” to a less stringent “Travel Advisory.”

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