Carla Sparacio and her family had just returned to Levittown from a delightful, sunny vacation and found themselves greeted by even more mounds of never-ending snow than when they first left.
Long Island has had a rough winter. Every week it seems that a fresh mountain of the white stuff covers towns, including Levittown, and residents have had enough.
“We were away for a week in the Bahamas, and we came back again to this?” said Sparacio. “It’s horrible…and all the damage that this snow is causing, you can’t see all the potholes.”
Sparacio agreed that the town is doing “a decent job of keeping the roads clear overall” but they still remain slippery.
George Seliger of Levittown is one of the few people who actually wasn’t tired of the excessive snowfall this winter season. In fact, he said that he actually welcomed the weather that had so many of his fellow residents cursing under their breath.
“I love it…if it’s going to be winter, I want snow,” he said. “Shoveling snow, having to uncover my car…it’s really no big deal. The only misgiving I have is that the weather is destroying everything,” said Seliger of the chemicals that are eating up the roads.
Hempstead Turnpike, for example, was just recently repaved, only to be done all over again by a new addition of dozens of potholes.
Heather McFeaney and her kids were running to the store to stock up on some goodies since school was closed. Heavily-laden with hot chocolate and cookies, they were eager to get home and start hibernating while watching movies…once the shoveling was finished.
“I’m so, so, so, sick of this snow. I really think the snow removal is being handled well enough, but I know it’s already taxing the county budget and they’re going to have problems down the road,” said McFeaney. “I can’t imagine how much overtime they’re having to pay out. But, we’re dealing with it as best as we can.”
While the thawing of sidewalks and parking lots will still take a while to improve, who knows what potholes with be revealed.
With the promise of warm weather approaching this week, residents are wondering where the big melt will leave all of this snow.
—Additional reporting by Jennifer Fauci
