Larry Falabella was busy shoveling the two-foot wall of ice that plows had pushed in front of his Baiting Hollow home Sunday morning, but he wasn't complaining. "Dig out Sunday, clean up Monday, wrap up Tuesday," he said. Jennifer DeSena, the North Hempstead town supervisor, said trucks went through every neighborhood three times Saturday - and the trucks were back out Sunday.īabylon spokesman Kevin Bonner said the town would have streets clear enough by the end of Sunday for a smooth morning commute on Monday. Its harsh, sweeping winds - with gusts of more than 50 mph - were a nightmare for work crews plowing and deicing roadways, as roads that were cleared quickly filled again with snow. The storm that started Friday night and continued through Saturday shut down airports, trains and buses. The Island should "snap out of" the unusually cold weather by Tuesday, allowing for some snow melt before rain is expected Thursday and Friday, meteorologist Jay Engle said. Two people died while shoveling snow and two more deaths are also believed to be storm-related, officials said.Īfter frigid temperatures Sunday night, the roads will have a sheen of ice to them Monday, meteorologists warned, starting a melt and refreeze cycle as the week goes on. If you don't get back through that road for another hour or two when it's snowing two inches an hour, you might have six inches of snow back on that road by the time you get back around," Losquadro said.
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