(Host) For the second time in less than a week, the region has been hit with a big snowstorm.
Schools and businesses closed as more than two feet of snow piled up in some areas.
The heaviest snow is once again in the southern part of the state, where VPR’s Susan Keese filed this report.
(Sound of snowplow)
(Keese) That’s the sound of Vermont again – a snowplow with chains clearing the roads as southern Vermont is hammered once again with a classic Nor’easter.
Forecasters say towns in the region to the east of Route 100 in southern Vermont got hit the hardest.
Newfane was a little beyond the worst area. But road foreman Todd Lawley says crews still had been battling the storm since the wee hours.
(Lawley) "We ‘re gaining now. We had, what? 20 inches probably … we’ve been at it since three o’clock so, going round and round. It’s probably the third time to get em cleaned up, but – we’re supposed to get another one to three inches tonight, so We’re just going to brush em off for tonight and come back in the morning and do it all over again."
(Keese) Lawley says snow was falling at about four inches an hour for at least part of the day.
He says the snow is deep, but it’s light and dry. And a lot of people seem to have taken the advice to stay off the roads.
(Lawley) "I don’t think we’re that bad. It seems like everything’s still running pretty well."
(Keese) Other parts of the state are also got more snow than they expected. Officials said roads were slippery and snow-covered.
But the state emergency management agency said crews coped well.
For VPR News, I’m Susan Keese in Newfane.
(Host) Forecasters say the snow should end by this evening in the south, where there could be as much as 30 inches. Weather advisories and warnings will remain in effect in the north until 1:00 a.m. Thursday.