Connecticut Braces for More Snow

As another snowstorm approaches, it's another rush for supplies at area hardware stores.

"Had to come get a shovel for the storm coming," Kathleen Green, of Bristol, said at the Home Depot in Bristol.

Bob Wardwell, of Bristol, left the store with an empty car.

"I came for ice melt, and they had none. All sold out," said Wardwell, who bought 100 pounds of ice melt for his house last Sunday and has already run out.

A rush on supplies before last week's blizzard cleaned out the salt and snow blowers at the Home Depot in Bristol. The store hoped to get an emergency shipment of ice melt in by Monday, but said other supplies would come in on the basis of need, depending on where the worst of the storm hit.

"We've sold nearly all the ice melt that we had available and we sold a lot of shovels, a lot of generators," Nick Kramarev, Home Depot operations manager, said.

Meanwhile in Hartford, officials are hoping people comply with the parking ban as well as they did during the blizzard, because they say cleaning up this storm is going to be an even bigger challenge.

"There's a lot of snow out there. We have no where to put it," Hartford Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley said.

He's urging people to park their cars in school parking lots until streets are cleared.

"Our narrow roadways, a single car at this point, is going to be devastating for our traffic," he said.

Patrick Cosgrove is a plow driver and doesn't mind the snow.

“Ya, I’m lovin’ it. I love the snow. I get to go out plowing. More hours at work. Money is good. I can’t complain," Cosgrove said.

Bristol snow plow driver Chris Everett is ready for whatever snow Monday brings.

"It'll be great. Especially 12 inches plus. That'll be awesome," he said.

Winter weather comes with the territory when you live in the Northeast.

"I like it. That's why I live in the Northeast. It's nice to have the snow once in a while, but spring's coming pretty quick," James Picard, of Terryville, said.

But the warmer weather couldn't come soon enough for some.

"I think Florida sounds very good," Green said.

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