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ten emphasized. ‘Take it easy.”
He said that if temperatures rise enough to melt the snow and ice on the back roads, crews will go back out and scrape as much of the slush as they can. “Right now,” he said, “we’re cleaning up, trying to make room for the next one. We’ve got to have some place to put it if we get more,” adding that he hopes the long-range forecast for another storm on Friday is wrong.
Mr. Bywaters said that the powdery consistency of the two snows did not make much difference to the highway department's efforts. “If we were lucky in any way,” he said, “it was that the wind didn’t blow as much as it could have. It was nothing like I’ve seen before.”
He recalled one winter storm which buried three highway department plows on Rt. 211 just west of the high school. “You could hardly see the trucks at all.”
The veteran supervisor said that his biggest problem has been complaints from people about snow pushed into their driveways by the snowplows. Just about the time they get dug out, he said, a truck comes dong to widen the road and plows the driveway shut again. “We can’t help it,” he said, asking the public to try to understand the department’s dilemma. “It’s either leave the roads narrow or cover up the driveways. We have no choice.”
Mr. Bywaters said that the cost to the department for clearing the county’s roads from the two storms will be “close to $70,000.” Thursday’s storm had already run up almost $30,000 in costs for sand and salt, equipment rental, and labor
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