(Photo by Connie Bocko.)"Well, WE're wondering when's it going to start snowing!" grumbled one of three fellows who were sitting down at Nice 'n Easy having an afternoon coffee, today. (After all - we could see all the way across Rt. 20 to Fallon's.) One said, "Why, I remember back during the blizzard of '66 when it must have been three days when we couldn't see from the house to the barn!" and one of his companions recalled that during the same storm he'd been driving for Agway and it took him seven hours to get from Deansboro to Waterville!"
They were right! It really doesn't SEEM to have been snowing that hard, today, but it's been steady, and here are the results......
Route 12 has been closed all day, and the snowbanks on East Main Street are getting quite high!
But not as high as those in Stockwell, Tom Stiles said.
Snow removal devices of all sorts were at work around the village, this afternoon: a major piece of equipment was making fast work of digging out the driveway at the Swanberg Home;
a brightly-cabbed lawn tractor turned snowplow was at work
farther up on Stafford Avenue...........
and a plume of snow marked the progress of a snowblower on Barton Avenue.
Bryan Briggs applied the "old-fashioned" method - called shovelling - to the "old-fashioned" snow.
He and this young lady on Babbott Avenue, 'though they were certainly working the hardest were also smiling the broadest - apparently enjoying themselves almost as much as these lads who knew that there were lots of better things to do with the snow:
it was there just for them to climb and slide on, right?
