That's most of the snow & ice I'm talking about. Over the past week or so we had a spread of a few days of temperatures above freezing. Yesterday it got up into sixties. That preceded more high winds with another cold front moving through. We even had a couple of nights when the temperature was above freezing.
But just a few days of warmer temperatures was enough to get rid of most of the snow & ice that made getting around treacherous. Some of the ice was nearly six inches thick around my neighborhood. In town even the big snow piles around the places that got plowed are gone. I did see one place out in the country today that gets just about no sunshine with some snow in the ditches.
All that melting has raised some of the water levels but so far around here we've been fortunate. There was some flooding up in Pennsylvania with ice jams on "crikes" but according to the National Weather Service the ville is past any flood threat.
Some of the bitter cold, precipitation and then warm days have caused the pot holes to spring up. I've seen some that were axle deep and that's makes driving a challenge. Our Street crew has been busy filling some of them in with cold patch. Pictured above is Village Street employee Jim Bauer and his assistant filling in a hole on Broadway today. Councilman Joe Soldano told me they are using some left overs from last year that was stored in the basement of Village Hall. He did mention that they are hoping they can scrounge up some funds to purchase more. Joe is the chairman of the Street Committee.
In the mean time keep your fingers crossed that the mayor gets his wish list fulfilled for funds from the stimulus package. One of the items was enough money to pave just about every street in town.
Wouldn't that be nice? For now we're back to seasonal weather. Think spring...
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