REDFIELD - A historic snowfall of more than 11 feet is nothing to get excited about in this hardy upstate New York village that thrives on snowmobilers and cross-country skiers.

“It's snow. We get a lot of it. So what?” said Allan Babcock, a lifelong resident who owns Shar's Country Diner, a popular eatery in this village of 650 people.

“It's nice to have all the attention - it's certainly good for business,” echoed Patti Patterson, who runs the Redfield Hotel, located across the road from the Salmon River Reservoir, about 35 miles north of Syracuse.

“Really, though, what's the fuss. Six feet of snow here is nothing,” Patterson said.

But this isn't six feet.

Unofficially, there's 11 feet, four inches left behind by intense lake-effect squalls that pounded communities along eastern Lake Ontario for nine straight days, before finally winding down Sunday. Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared a state disaster emergency in Oswego County because of the heavy snow.

If accurate, Redfield's total would break the state record of ten feet, seven inches of snow that fell in nearby Montague over seven days ending Jan. 1, 2002, said Steve McLaughlin, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

A National Weather Service official will travel to Redfield Monday to try to verify the total, he said.

The highest confirmed snowfall was in Parish, where 115 inches had been recorded as of 8 a.m. Sunday. Mexico had 103 inches, North Osceola had 99 and Scriba 94. The city of Oswego had 85 inches.

The persistent snow bands that have wracked the county for a week were expected to finally end Monday.

“We have a sharp front coming in Monday that's going to kick all this out. We may get one more burst of snow. But then it's over. Finally, some mercy,” McLaughlin said.

However, the forecaster noted that a coastal winter storm expected midweek could bring another 6 to 12 inches to areas of upstate New York.