LaCarrubba said that officials began planning in advance of the storm and that more than 40 pieces of snow-removal equipment was used, including vehicles used to access some of the more narrow streets in the city.

“We did good,” said resident Leigh Elayne Alexandre. “I was very impressed to see the plows working hard all night, even on our little side streets. A huge thank you to the plow drivers that worked hard all night!”           

The Long Island Power Authority, highly criticized for its response to Sandy, had ceded its emergency storm operations to National Grid in anticipation of more than 100,000 power outages on Long Island. Fortunately, in storm-battered Long Beach, the agency reported very few scattered outages in the city that were restored by mid-week.

“We dodged a bullet in Long Beach,” resident Helen Prochilo said on Facebook. “Only 10 inches of snow and I am happy about that!”

Still, the impending blizzard saw the return of long lines at the gas pumps last Friday.

“There was a huge rush to fill up gas tanks,” said resident Keith Grant. “I passed by both Mobil stations and they were turning people away, and there was a line down the block at the Hess station.”

With many residents still reeling from the devastation to their homes, Grant and others said that the timing of such storms couldn't be worse.

“I'd say that the times we live in now, when you put the words 'coastal' and 'storm' in a sentence, people are going to get nervous, that's kind of our new reality,” he said. “There's a combination of people saying enough already, can we just get through this bad weather? But you also have a resilient bunch of people down here and not much can faze people right now. The resilience down here is as strong as you can find anywhere.”