We set a 50-year record for snowfall. We had 30 inches here in 1951, and so far this season, we've had 42 inches. This season, snowfall in Northeast Ohio communities has been between 20 and 25 inches, but record low temperatures for sustained periods of time have made road maintenance even more difficult. We're right on the edge of the Snow Belt, and we get hit pretty hard sometimes, but we manage to stay ahead of the game. Liskowski said the village has used 1,700 tons of salt so far, in contrast to the 1,400 tons used during the entire winter last year.
Supervisors say communities are also breaking records for overtime hours logged by road workers.
We're on call 24 hours a day. Sometimes it's so intense, but we get the job done, though we're probably not a lot of fun to know right now. As far as snowfall goes, this is a winter we haven't had in years, and the long stretch of cold weather complicates things. This year, it's been a long hard battle, but my men have been keeping ahead of it. We work every day, even Christmas and New Year's Day.