Village: Main Roads Clear, Working to Clear Side Streets

The Village of Lindenhurst has been working since Friday to keep the roads clear in the face of the blizzard that hit overnight into Saturday.

"It was very, very tough overnight," Ray Fais, emergency manager for the Village, told Lindenhurst Patch on Saturday.

"We had some trouble keeping up with the snow. We could hardly see, and the snow was very wet and so were the roads so we had trouble pushing the snow," he said.

There were also some streets that flooded during the storm that made it hard for trucks to get to in order to plow.

"There were some streets down South of Montauk Highway." Fais said, noting the flooding the Village experienced down there was at normal levels for a Noreaster, and not like the record-breaking levels seen during Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that ravaged the area in October.

"It wasn't bad - normal. The high tides - at 8:51 a.m. this morning and 8:41 p.m. last night - weren't terrible. There was some water in the streets. There was no damage," he said.

But today, as the Noreaster made it way off Long Island, the Village has been able to clear the main roads of the Village, and is working to clear the side streets and get to those South of Montauk streets that were flooded, too.

"We have trucks in all areas now. We have everything out. Plowing is on the way, and we're working to getting to all of the residents now. We're making real headway," Fais said, noting there were some breakdowns overnight, but "our mechanics did a great job fixing them."

As of Saturday afternoon DPW crews were also working to remove snow around the cars parked at Shore Road Park.

"They were snowed in, so we're trying to clear the cars so residents could come and get them," Fais said.

Resident with non-emergency, snow-related issues could call the DPW at 631-957-7520.

There were also no reports of downed trees or tree limbs in the Village, he said. "There were about 13,000 without power at one point, but the Village didn't lose power."

Fais put snow totals in the Village in the double digits.

"I'd say we received between 13 and 15 inches depending on where you are in the Village," he said.

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