4th nor’easter to hit Connecticut starts off less severe than anticipated
The storm, which had been forecast to drop between six inches and a foot of snow across much of
But emergency management and public works officials in communities around the
The
"We can not fall asleep at the wheel," Fontana said. "That's not how we do business."
"We haven't gone beyond out budget yet, but we're right up against it," Fontana said.
The town of
"The longer the storm takes to arrive, the harder it makes it for us to plan," Noewatne said. "You obviously want to pre-treat the roads before the storm arrives. But at the same time, you don't want to use too much of the stuff too soon."
DOT also had 17 industrial/loader-mounted snowblowers, each capable of moving 1,500 tons of snow per hour, according to a statement released by agency.
For Orange-based UI, that meant that utility officials were expecting between 5,000 and 10,000 customer outages across the company's 17-town service territory in
The amount of wind that came with the storm is likely to have an impact on power outage levels. Fontana said
Even though the storm was slow in getting started, it had a significant impact on activity levels at
"As of now, we do have snow coming down, but it's not of much intensity and it's not really sticking to the ground. So we're open," said Tweed Assistant Manager
But American "canceled a lot of the flights due to the weather in Philly" and as of late Wednesday afternoon, the first commercial flight in was expected to be the one from
The first flight out from Tweed is scheduled to take off at
Many school systems across the
Even though many
There was no pre-storm rush at the Woodbridge True Value hardware store.
Bags of potting soil and compost sat outside the store next to snowblowers. Shovels and seeds for spring gardens shared space inside, where metal rakes had sold out.
"We're kind of hoping for spring," Scandone said. "If all the storms happened last month, we would have sold a ton of stuff."
The unpredictable weather during this change of created a good deal of uncertainty in how best to stock the shelves, he said.
"What do you do about it? Do you bring out the spring stuff?" he said " It's spring, right?"
Reports from Register staff members were added to this story.
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