With snow falling at a few inches an hour at times Monday, plow truck drivers throughout central Massachusetts had a hard time keeping up with the clean-up efforts.
“It’s easy to move but the wind blows it back in pretty quickly so then you’re going back, a lot of work,” said plow driver Ryan Mancini.
The snow build-up on the main roads like Route 9 in Worcester meant many cars had a hard time keeping traction. One car was just spinning its tires stuck at an intersection as other cars drove by, many perhaps fearing if they stop they’ll also get stuck.
Worcester resident David Shane said, “We just came from Framingham to Shrewsbury and it was just awful, we had to follow a plow so we didn’t get stuck.”
Some opted to walk to work Monday instead of getting behind the wheel, but with large snow piles on the sidewalks and in the streets that proved difficult too.
“It’s been absolutely horrible, I live around the corner, I can’t even get off my hill, and I just had to walk up that hill so I’m a little out of breath right now,” Shannon Bernier, a UMass Memorial employee, explained.
So many just kept at it at home, trying to find a place to put all this snow after clearing off their cars and shoveling out their driveways.
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Jerome Zulu of Worcester said, “I think it was difficult because it snowed before and there’s snow all over the place, if we never had the storm before it would have been easier to pile up the snow across the street.”
It’s the same challenge Worcester DPW crews are facing as they work overtime to try to clear the roads for Tuesday morning’s commute.
“It’s a challenge when you have it’ll be close to 50 inches of snow on the ground here as a result of these three storms back to back there’s just really no place to put this stuff,” City Manager Edward Augustus, Jr. added.
Worcester Public Schools are closed for Tuesday due to the continued clean up efforts.
