After what will likely turn out to be another historic dumping of snow once the tally is in, storm cleanup continues in Brighton and across nearby communities.
Yesterday’s storm that swept in during the early morning hours Thursday and continued into the evening snarled travel across the county and beyond and led to hundreds of collisions across the province.
Locally, emergency crews were also kept busy fielding a slew of calls but at press deadline, no serious injuries were reported as a result of crashes, including in a seven-car pile-up on Hwy. 401 near Port Hope and a three-vehicle car wreck in Cramahe.
The storm forced everything from municipal closures in Quinte West to library and store closures, and even provincial court offices closures in Cobourg.
In Brighton, public works staff, including a team of nine snowplow operators, continue to work on cleaning up roads, sidewalks and parking lots.
As previously reported, this small but mighty team is responsible for tackling more than 250 kilometres worth of roads and 40 kilometres worth of sidewalks during the winter months using 10-plus pieces of equipment. And cleanup can be challenging in continuous snow events like yesterday, especially in rural areas.
In other storm-related news, for households that didn’t get waste and recycling collection yesterday, residents are asked to remove items from the curb and put them out again on their next regularly scheduled collection day. Northumberland County has noted that waste limits will be temporarily increased to four bags per household for those impacted.
