From 13 inches in Vernon to nearly a foot of snow in Manchester and Glastonbury, there was plenty of cleaning up to do long after the snow stopped in Connecticut.
“A lot of us know when you get home, the work is not done until it’s all clear,” Thomas Ritter of Manchester said.
His driveway was so buried in snow, he spent most of Friday night shoveling and snow blowing.
“I’ll take care of the driveway as much as I can and then I’ll probably have to do a little more in the morning like salting,” Ritter said.
The clean-up is exhausting especially when you have more than one driveway to do.
“I’ve been running around doing 30 or 40 driveways,” Bob Hadden of Vernon said. “It’s going to freeze tonight and then it will be harder to move.
From driveways to entryways, Hadden does it all and he is not complaining because as the snow adds up, so does the money in his wallet.
“I get paid basically by the inch,” Hadden said. “A three to four inch snow is the norm, but anything beyond that I usually charge extra.”
The wet, heavy snow was tough to shovel and plow, but perfect for snowman making on Cold Springs Street in Vernon where families were taking advantage of it.
“Every year we make a snowman as much as we can but you know some years it’s not enough good snow,” Ole Kushner Hermanson of Vernon said. “But this is really packed well and you roll down the hill and it’s good.”
