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Department of Public Works employees struggle with the snowfall on Woodacre Road on Saturday morning.
Photo Credit: Contributed by Rich Wellen
Department of Public Works snowplows struggle with the snowfall on Woodacre Road on Saturday morning.
Photo Credit: Contributed by Rich Wellen
A DPW snowplow is stuck on Woodacre Road in Norwalk on Saturday morning.
Photo Credit: Contributed by Rich Wellen
A Department of Public Works front end loader gets stuck in the snow on Woodacre Road on Saturday morning.
Photo Credit: Contributed by Rich Wellen
NORWALK, Conn. – Updated at 11:43 a.m. Monday, Jan. 23
Even Norwalk's Department of Public Works had problems with Saturday's snowfall, as these pictures from a reader of The Daily Norwalk show.
A snowplow got stuck on the front lawn on a Woodacre Road home Saturday morning, Rich Wellen reports. The DPW sent a second plow to help, but it also got stuck, he said. Then a front loader sent to help got stuck, too.
Wellen says the second truck was also a sander and finally threw down enough sand to inch its way forward. The front loader wiggled its way free and scraped the snow from in front of the first truck that was stuck on the lawn of the red house. They then spun the tires and dug up the lawn until the tires finally grabbed and they rocked it free. They eventually cleared the road by coming from above off Birchside Drive.
Woodacre road is very steep, Wellen says, adding, "Haven't seen a plow stuck here before but school busses. I think the problem was they had no tire chains on the trucks. Normally they have chains."
Original post:
Even Norwalk's Department of Public Works is having problems with Saturday's snowfall, as these pictures from a reader of The Daily Norwalk show.
A snowplow got stuck on the front lawn on a Woodacre Road home Saturday morning, Rich Wellen reports. The DPW sent a second plow to help, but it also got stuck, he said. Then a front loader sent to help got stuck, too.
There's no word about what happened after that.
Have you got photos of the snow fall or of unusual events caused by the snow? Send them to nchapman@thedailynorwalk.com.
Any excuse for a dig at the mayor. People just spew trash without thinking. They likely did the center first so traffic could go through & were coming back to finish later, if the cars were still gone. As far as the speed it actually helps if not too nuts, if they try crawling thru they can end up stuck, as anybody who has driven in snow should know. Nobodies perfect but the City tries & in my opinion usually does a decent job.