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Winter is taking its toll on Ridgewood

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pile of snow at Graydon Pool

Winter is taking its toll on Ridgewood

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2014, 4:42 PM
BY  DARIUS AMOS AND LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITERS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Following a snowstorm that lasted from Feb. 4 to 5, longtime resident Sal Falciglia saw a car stuck in the snow in downtown Ridgewood on Feb. 6, and couldn’t take it anymore.

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“Our road department in Ridgewood is the worst road department in the world,” he said.

The plowing on Rock Road in Glen Rock was much closer to the curb than plowing he had seen in Ridgewood, he said, and “all my neighbors are sick and tired of it.”

Maureen Wolfson, who has lived in the village for 30 years, called this “the worst year ever” for snow removal. She “almost broke [her] neck” trying to put money in a parking meter at the train station, where the sidewalks were poorly shoveled, she said.

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Storms Trigger Rash of Cabin Fever

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photo by Boyd Loving

Storms Trigger Rash of Cabin Fever
By JOSH DAWSEY

A light dusting of powder gave Sarah Meacham a reason to buy $10 ski pants and gloves for her four children this winter. They played in their Columbia, S.C., yard, threw snowballs and took pictures.

The latest storms were overkill, though, as Ms. Meacham tried to cope with a houseful of restless children, layers of ice on the roads and makeup school days on the horizon.

“My friends have their wine and flashlights and candles,” she says. “I have my Xanax filled.”

This year’s brutal winter has united people North, South and Midwest in a geographically nonpartisan plea: Stop this slushy, icy, snowy nightmare.

A storm in early February affected 100 million Americans. The frigid weather left 87% of the Great Lakes frozen over, not far from the record of 95%, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Sixty-two inches of snow have fallen in Chicago this winter, 38 inches above normal. Temperatures have dropped below 0 degrees on 21 days, with wind chill occasionally dipping below -40 degrees. Kansas and other places are running out of salt.

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