Beverly Snow Emergency Parking Ban Extended To Monday

BEVERLY, MA — The snow emergency parking ban in Beverly was extended into a third day on Sunday as crews work to clean up streets and snow drifts from Saturday's blizzard.

The ban was extended until 8 a.m. on Monday morning.

"The snow has stopped but our cleanup has not," Beverly Commissioner of Public Services and Engineering said on Sunday. "We are getting some sleep over the next few hours but will be back at it tonight to widen out streets and start some removal. The operation (Sunday) night will involve larger pieces of equipment. pushing back bankings and clearing up snow from the driveway clearing operations."

With the city taking a break from snow removal during the daylight Sunday hours, residents can move their cars out of driveways for their own snow removal as long as they were off the street at nightfall.

"It is critical that you do not leave your car in the roadway (overnight)," Collins said. "Later this week we are predicted to have warm temps followed by very cold weather. Whatever the snowbanks are at that point, they will remain for quite some time."

The storm brought about 2 feet of snow and wind gusts up to 70 mph on the North Shore. Some cities and towns just south of Boston hit the 30-inch mark.

Beverly was one of several communities that the National Weather Service measured as having an official blizzard.

"Thank you for your cooperation throughout the blizzard," Collins said. "It was a very difficult storm for us and having fewer cars on the roads helped quite a bit."

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)