The snow had stopped falling by Wednesday morning, leaving residents, businesses and town workers digging out from drifts as high as five feet.

But this winter’s first big blast turned out to be less traumatic than had been feared and predicted. By and large, power stayed on. And public safety officials reported no major incidents.

Tuesday morning, 2,083 were without power, though NStar listed only 14 outages as of Tuesday evening.

The National Weather Service reported 21.5 inches of snow for Wareham, and heavy winds whipped through town. A travel ban issued Monday night by Governor Charlie Baker had been lifted by Wednesday morning.

“We did the best we could,” said Wareham Police Chief Kevin Walsh said. “It was tough getting around, but all the town agencies worked together and did a pretty good job. We responded to a lot of calls. It was tough-going but we got to them.”

As of Wednesday morning, several roads remained unplowed. Town Administrator Derek Sullivan said that due to the large amount of snow, Municipal Maintenance had only been able to use large equipment for plowing. He also said that the bombardier machine used to clear sidewalks had broken down, making snow removal even more difficult.

"This means we are limited with the type of equipment that we can use," he said. "Municipal Maintenance is working as fast as they can to clear every street. They will continue to work throughout the day."

He said Municipal Maintenance would not be able to provide information on the plowing of specific streets.

“We actually made out very well,” said Onset Fire Chief Ray Goodwin, noting they received about two dozen phone calls for assistance for things such as stuck vehicles and downed power lines. “Fortunately, for the amount of snow we had, things were very light considering.”

Goodwin did say they received a call for a carbon monoxide alarm, and after investigating, carbon monoxide turned up in a resident's home.

“The detector had done its job,” he said.

He urged people to call whenever a carbon monoxide alarm goes off.

He said the department had extra personnel on duty during the storm.

“They did a great job,” he said.”Now they’re home today. Their reward was to go home and try to dig their own houses out.”

Harbormaster Garry Buckminster said things looked good at Onset Pier.

“There was no flooding, and the boats are all fine,” he said.

Aside from some calls for assistance, Wareham Fire Captain Mark Rogers said things went smoothly for his department.

“There were some run-of-the-mill calls — requests for assistance with wires, agency vehicles stuck — just little things,” he said, noting that they too had extra staffing on for Monday and Tuesday.

He said as of Wednesday morning, firefighters were shoveling out fire hydrants along Main Street.

“The streets are horrible. Main Street is a mess. But we’re just trying to work through it all. Municipal Maintenance is very, very busy. It’s just one of those historic storms.”

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