I would have been happy with 4" in Middlesex County. I randomly woke up at 3:30 and looked at the window and thought that's 8" of snow on my car. I went to the car to get my snowbrush and boots and sure enough 8" and no sign of slowing down. I'll take it as a token of the snow gods' repentance for the past few years.
My mom has zilch 25 miles away.