Westchester County, along with other areas in the Northeast and throughout a wide swath of the U.S., is digging out today following the weekend’s major snowstorm. New York state, Westchester County and many municipalities declared states of emergency that remain in effect. While all arrivals and departures at Westchester County Airport were canceled yesterday, on Monday about half of the scheduled flights were anticipated to be operating.
Westchester County offices were among those closed on Monday, with employees expected to work remotely when possible.
The county’s Bee-Line bus operations and ParaTransit service were slowly resuming Monday morning with riders urged to check online for updates. Buses were expected to have to take detours because of poor road conditions in some areas.
School systems around the county were closed for the day.
Metro-North was running on a Saturday schedule on Monday, with added trains during rush hours.
Commercial vehicle restrictions for the New York State Thruway have been lifted. State employees are working remotely on Monday.
White Plains City Hall was due to open Monday at noon, as was the city’s library. Youth Bureau and senior citizen programming for the day was canceled.
In Peekskill, the senior center and meal program will be closed today. In anticipation of the snowstorm, staff distributed emergency, shelf-stable meals to the homebound and congregate members.
The Village of Tarrytown was keeping its snow emergency in effect until Tuesday at 8 a.m. Village Hall was closed on Monday and sanitation services were suspended for the day. Tarrytown’s Fitness Center and Warner Library were closed and all senior citizen activities including the Senior Shuttle were canceled.
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, like the mayors of numerous other municipalities, had declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the storm. Spano and various city officials monitored conditions around the city.
“As the third largest city in New York State and one of the hilliest in the country, Yonkers is well prepared to handle the anticipated effects of this snowstorm,” Spano said.
Yonkers deployed snow emergency crews working 12-hour shifts, manning 34 large plows and salters along with 19 small plows and salters. The Yonkers maintains 654 lane miles of roads, 459 dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs, 100 bridges, more than 80 parks, playgrounds and facilities along with 4 linear miles of sidewalks and 34 sets of stairs and 4 pedestrian bridges.
Snow totals in Westchester as reported by the National Weather Service shortly before 11 a.m. on Monday included Somers with17.0 inches, Dobbs Ferry with 15 inches, Mamaroneck with 14.5 inches, Peekskill with 14.0 inches, Hartsdale with 12.5 inches, Armonk with 11.7 inches and Yonkers with 11.4 inches.
