There was a major snowstorm Monday, but it largely spared the city, instead burying spots farther north and east. That has some in New York City wondering whether it was overkill to shut down roads and subways, decisions the governor and the mayor are defending. NY1's Josh Robin filed the following report.

Snowmageddon it wasn't.

Up to three feet of the white stuff was predicted. Instead, it wasn't even one foot in the five boroughs.

So the subway shutdown wasn't really necessary after all. Probably not the city and region driving ban, either - which, by the way everyone pretty much obeyed. Police reported no tickets.

While businesses lost some money, the governor and the mayor say they have no regrets.

"Would you rather be ahead of the action, or behind? Would you rather be prepared or unprepared?" Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

"My attitude is, I would rather, if there's a lean one way or the other, if you will, lean towards safety," Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

Safety - or, to some, maybe coddling.

"It's gotten a little out of hand," said Karol Markowicz, who owns a salon on the Upper East Side and writes. 

Markowicz thinks the city is getting soft. Her children weren't wearing gloves, nor were they really complaining. 

    Markowicz: It's winter. It's New York. It's the northeast. It happens.     It's not something that we're going to be able to get rid of.

    Robin: So you're saying get over it?

    Markowicz: Exactly.

But officials insist that New Yorkers need only look back five years to realize that the city and the state made the right call this time, snow dud or not. Then, one-fifth of ambulances got stuck, as did one-sixth of the MTA bus fleet. And no MTA shutdown then meant a lot of agita that some people may be forgetting.

"We had forty-something trains stranded, and 600 buses stranded, for a 20-inch snowstorm. That informed us very well going forward," said MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast.

Speaking of going forward, the city said it's going to examine if it would do anything different. Cuomo said the state is tripling its weather forecasting power.

Not that there's anything wrong with meteorologists.

"I do not criticize weather forecasters. I learned," Cuomo said.

Just as the city is shoveling out without any lasting damage, the same can be said about both men's reputations. Their next test may be around the bend. Snow showers are predicted for Friday.

To keep track of where plows are in your neighborhood, visit www.nyc.gov/plownyc.