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Originally Posted by PugMom
if i remember correctly, you guys in north haven always got a bit more hammered than we did in w hart. we lost power during that storm, about 11 days, hunkered down in front of a fireplace. that was 1 wicked ice storm
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Yes our town broke the state historic record that year. Snow storm around X-mas, followed by another one, followed by the ice storm, followed by a melt and re-freeze followed by two more snowstorms. Dozens of cars abandoned on I-91 because the traffic was crawling and the snow was piling up faster than the cars could get through it. An entire family died, somewhere near the Mass Pike I believe, when the man got out to try and find help and got lost in the storm. His wife and baby both were found dead, and he was found only a few dozen yards away from the car, also dead.
They had a full parking ban and emergency order throughout our town, but not everyone was home to be able to get their cars off the side of the road. The snow piled up so high with the wind drifts that the plows couldn't even tell that there were cars there - until the plows rammed into the cars and destroyed them (and destroyed the plows in the process).
Multi-million dollar damage, to personal property and to town property.
Thankfully - North Haven had a zero-dollar deficit and a cushion of general fund money plus a HUGE public works department budget. They got emergency funding from the government to cover whatever the town couldn't already handle themselves, but it was paid back easily because the town's government was (and still is) top-notch.