I'm just down the road from Metuchen...I agree with all that. I measured about 1" of snow on my car at 6:35. I went to Shop Rite and by the time I got back my footprints were almost buried. Probably at 1.5-1.75" right now.
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.