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Snow just keeps coming as crews continue to clear roads Date published: 2/9/2010
BY EMILY BATTLE
In what is becoming an all-too-familiar cycle, road-clearing crews in the Fredericksburg area continued to work around the clock yesterday to clear snow and ice left from the weekend storm, as a new storm threatened to dump five or more inches of snow on the area tonight. Yesterday and overnight, VDOT and Fredericksburg road crews were trying to get at least a single, passable lane plowed on as many residential streets as possible. VDOT spokeswoman Tina Bundy said the agency believed it could get to 90 percent of the 4,000 miles of subdivision roads it is responsible for in Stafford, Spotsylvania and King George counties. "You may not see bare pavement, but at least you will have a path so that you can maneuver out of the neighborhood," she said. As they worked, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the area, effective this afternoon through tomorrow evening. Kevin Witt, a meteorologist in the weather service's Sterling office, said the Fredericksburg area can expect five or more inches of snow, starting this afternoon and ending after sunset tomorrow. The snow is expected to be heaviest tonight and tomorrow morning, Witt said. That means Fredericksburg and VDOT crews probably won't come off their 12-hour rotations before they're out plowing another round of snow. nowhere left Jack Roberts, the city's superintendent of public works, said he expected snow removal operations to continue around the clock through the weekend, regardless of what falls today and tomorrow. He said the hard-packed ice from last weekend's storm is proving difficult to clear. Bundy said VDOT crews are trying to remove some of the giant walls of frozen snow that line plowed streets and block some turn lanes. "We are truly running out of places to push the snow," she said. VDOT teams from other areas of the Fredericksburg district that weren't as hard-hit by the storm have come to help with a load-and-haul operation, to take the snow off the roads. Bundy said VDOT deposits hauled snow on any available piece of state-owned property it can find. The city also loaded and hauled snow out of the downtown area Sunday night and Monday morning. Roberts said that snow goes to the old landfill off Cool Spring Road.
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