Snow mounds create hazards for North Jersey motorists, pedestrians
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2014, 8:58 PM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Eboni Rodgers drove her blue BMW to the edge of a mountain of ice. She lowered her tinted window, and her mouth fell open. Somewhere behind the ice, cars were driving fast up Route 17.
Rodgers nosed out onto the highway as far as she dared. She stretched tall in her seat. Still, she could see only a pile of black-gray ice, and above that, sky.
“This is scary,” Rodgers, 38, saidas she tried to exit the Trader Joe’s parking lot in Paramus on Friday afternoon. “The snow is piled so high, you have to pull practically into the highway to see the cars coming. It’s ridiculous.”
In the wake of back-to-back snowstorms that buried the region, an army of government workers and private contractors worked for days on end this week to clear North Jersey’s streets, parking lots and sidewalks of snow. Now we fortunate citizens — the ones who didn’t spend double shifts behind the wheels of snowplows — must navigate what’s left behind: huge piles of frozen precipitation.
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