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State DOTs Hire Influx of Contractors to Dig States Out of Snowstorm Nemo By Jay Adams
40-Plus Inches of Snow While thousands of New They didn’t have to find England towns and cities Nemo. Nemo found them. were buried, Hamden, Hundreds, if not thouConn., was one of the hardsands, of contractors were est hit in the blizzard of temporarily hired by state 2013, seeing an astonishing DOTs and municipalities as 40-plus inches of snow. private vendors in the states Hamden also is the town of Connecticut, Rhode Sweeney Excavation Inc. has been headquartered for Island and Massachusetts, 26-plus years. Sweeney was among other New England ready. states, to dig out from the “Immediately following worst single snowstorm to the storm, we placed four hit the area in 40 years. pay loaders with the town of During the 30 or so hours Hamden and soon after disthat the storm raged over patched two tri-axle dump Feb. 8 and 9, pay loaders, trucks to assist with moving dump trucks, front loaders the snow from the streets to and other snow-clearing the parks throughout the vehicles were commantown where we piled the deered by the hardest-hit snow,” said Bob Sweeney, cities and states on tempoowner of Sweeney rary contracts to remove the Excavation. “These locasnow that in some areas tions became known as came in record-breaking snow farms.” amounts. Hamden collectively Governors imposed drivhired 30 to 40 pay loaders ing bans for two days and the from private contractors and only vehicles allowed on received additional assisroads were those sporting plows. Commuter traffic Hamden collectively hired 30 to 40 pay loaders from tance from the National was ordered stalled in order private contractors and received additional assis- Guard. “The first task after the that the plows and other tance from the National Guard. storm was to simply open all heavy iron could drive snow off highways to clear paths for emergency vehicles, police, roads in town to allow two-way traffic. Once done, the roads fire, ambulance and especially power companies to restore were then opened up from curb to curb, which exposed energy to hundreds of thousands of New Englanders who drainage structures and allowed melting snow to run off into lost it; some — like in Marion, Mass. and the Cape — for up drainage systems,” added Sweeney. “Where snow needed to be removed to accomplish this, it was loaded onto dump to six days. DOTS and state governments were lauded, for the most trucks and taken to the snow farms. “Our loaders and trucks worked 24-hour cycles starting on part, for their plowing plans which worked quickly, due in large part to the hard work of the private vendors who were Feb. 11 and ending at noon on Feb. 17. Collectively, we regular guys with plows. see NEMO page 4
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