The National Weather Service urged drivers to be careful Friday morning.
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Around midnight, video was sent to Eyewitness News of snow falling in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey covering the roads and plows already in motion, moving the snow.
Farther north in Orange County, New York, the snow fell gently in Goshen. The ground had a good coating there.
North of that, just below Interstate 84, roads became so slick that a police cruiser flipped onto its roof on Route 208 and Horton Road in Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York.
No one was injured.
On the mountaintops, it was a winter wonderland a postcard pretty landscape in Warwick.
The first significant snowfall of the season meant it was time to break out the snow blower and the shovels.
It was no easy task shoveling the wet, heavy snow.
Parts of Warwick got hit with more than 7 inches of snow, and the wet snow caused problems including power outages.
Some schools in the Hudson Valley region and in New Jersey were reporting closures or delays for Friday morning, you can check the list HERE.
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