after a mostly quiet winter New Jersey got what forecasters believe is the biggest snowstorm of the Season at least so far the quick moving storm ended around 1 p.m. but not before dropping up to a foot of heavy snow in some parts of the state early reports tallied 12 in in Vernon and 10 in in Nolton Warren County wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour knocked out power to several thousand homes and businesses during the height of the snowfall this morning though most of North Jersey got just a few inches about four in Verona and 2 Ines further south in Howell coastal flooding was an issue though along the shore daytime high tide was the peak of flooding this is a parking lot in Keyport engulfed in baywater the powerful nor Easter resulted in thousands of canceled flights for the region school and State office closings it was though a much-needed snow day for some and as Raven Santana reports time to shovel out for others many residents woke up to sounds of plows and salt trucks driving up and down streets after Mother Nature reminded us all despite the warmer temperatures we're very much still in Winter and today's winter storm dumped several inches of snow across the Garden State from Highbridge to kennworth South Orange to Vernon it was more of a winter wonderland for Northern New Jersey according to meteorologist Alex storman at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly the the northern half of the state definitely uh got the most snow they they definitely got the most snow uh up that way just because it's a little bit colder up there staran adds while South Jersey may have seen the actual snow falling what they didn't get was an accumulation of it um so farther south uh the temperatures are uh near to just above freezing which is why the snow is struggling to accumulate this far south um and you know basically it's it's melting as it's falling is is kind of what we say right now it looks like uh Sussex County uh has the most in the State uh we have several reports of about 8 to 12 inches in Sussex County nobody wants ice over snow it take snow any day over ice Joseph P is the director of engineering for public works and facilities in the county of union he says about 100 crew members have been working around Around the Clock salting and plowing streets since 3:00 a.m. we probably have right now we probably have about 40 to 45 trucks out on the road but then support staff and and Facilities trucks and everything we're probably looking at about 65 pieces of equipment throughout the county this is one of four salt storage facilities the county utilizes this one here in Scotch Plains holds about 1,500 tons but Pala says throughout the storm he expects 6 to 700 tons to be used there's there's probably I don't know maybe th000 tons left in here this is this is one of our two main facilities here in the county of Union and we have two other facilities that we share with municipalities well we our most number one priority is the hills to the hospitals they run their route constantly they do a center cut in the snow and then they do a curb cut in the end they'll plow the roads so in the in the county we don't have many complaints about their roads are not not salted in the end State climatologist Dave Robinson's concerns echool as he says he's not worried about cleanup he's worried about ice I I'm most concerned with the road conditions tomorrow morning as temperatures drop below freezing overnight those untreated roads I think it's tomorrow morning that's going to have the the traffic concerns or the travel concerns Robinson adds that the battle is for tomorrow so while the snow is here try to look on the brighter side of the situation as we may not see another snowstorm soon that it seems more of our snow is coming in larger events and it's not lasting as long on the ground once it's here um by next week maybe a memory people should just you know take advantage and get out on their sleds and skis and and enjoy this for now for NJ Spotlight news I'm Raven Santana