Posted by Donald Lehman on January 20, 2014 at 15:37:11 from (50.122.167.210):
In Reply to: snow days posted by howdy1960 on January 19, 2014 at 21:18:21:
Years ago Rt 177 across Tug Hill was a Lewis County Road. The County highway dept had a couple of old war surplus snowblowers. Big old Oskgosh (spelling?) trucks and huge 8 or 10 foot blowers maybe. The trucks had 4 wheel steering. At the point where 177 became a State highway, the Lewis County State DOT in Lowville took over the responsilbility for snow removal. There was a bit of a learning curve for the State DOT guys and they took a good bit of ribbing from the County highway boys. If memory serves me, I believe the DOT used the county's snowblowers a few times to clear out the road. The blizzard of 77/78 one of the county fellows told me he was opening up the Sears Pond road off 177 and he plowed a car right over the snow bank that was in the road and completely buried. Fortunately there was no one in the car.
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