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w clearing started oan
ear's Eve. Re said he
lied- out just befOre
ht and had to leave a
early. A. plow •was
bed to clear roads to
he superintendent to
the township garage
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rest A010 100 milk" trucks to dairy apd;WPNiered why t"
‘!: kilns shipping milk and CUL .-hadar;thitifnvtheirhoi
!.'three graders..Wor - and , !trails for fuel trucks keeping One g
five' operators, including rnP. 'fuel 611.',sopplied to farm ventured out to the town
• end the maehines- worked houses. garage and ..discogerlg'
ulet
roiled the clock and SQ did the The effort was met with three graders parkPci,libi.t.L',
operators." - - mixed emotion by the public yard TheY' flt. the erOWhact
reepvered from the , New aPpreciated the work 9f the plained-Vehementl* te-•--.thtifft
Year's ' effort ..by -Mother, road crew but others seemed councillors. The machines
Nature ..when the Winds to be Unreasonable in their • were parked because-
Picked up and roared in from demands. He said some ; weather had finalljimPrOvfd.'
Lake Huron ina second storm - people would clear out their and the men were takiog-'ac
that covered most roads with driveway and then park their well earned rest.
up to 10 feet of snow: The car on the -road to peevent the "W had worked
:The crew had Just Mr.Potter said mostpeople been slacking,
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e a nearly 30.
hours straight at that pont;
and myson was upset
because he could't un
derstand why I wasn't
coming home anymore," said.
Mr. Pater. "i was beat Mid
so were the men so I sent
everyone home for some
rest."
Mr: Potter said at one point
he was prevented froth
repairing One of the graders
because the phone wouldn't
stop ringing: He said the
machine' had tranithission
problems and he was trying
to fix it but couldn't because •
people kept calling the
garage for a road report He -
finally took .the' phone off the
hook to get the grader back On
the road. •.
COLBORNE TOWNSHIP
Alex Chisholm, road
superintendent of Colborne
Township, related many
similar stories concerning
snow clearing in Colborne.
Mr. -Chisholm is,spending his,
first winter as road'
superintendent and -according
to one of his plow orierators,it
is the worstwipter in at least
22 years.
F, .1ohn,1 Cil; tbas, I be ,r
•,iplOwing,‘ Colborne Townsh
roads iv the winter for t e -,
past 22 'years and -he clpi
that the snow he faced4uring
the January storms was the
hardest he has ever en-
countered. He said the storm
of 1971 was easier to.eope with
because of its short duration
but the ceaseless winds this
year have made life.
miserable for plow operators.
Mr:' Chisholm applied the
same theory jis Joe Potter
arid made farm operations
the priority -.during the
. storms. He said dairy farms
shipping milk and egg and
pork operations getting
regular shipments of feed
were kept serviced during the
entire period of storms.
'tWe had complairits from
some people who worked in
town," said Mr. Chisholm,
"but I explained to them that
if they didn't get to town they
may lose $50 while s me
dairy farmers stood trlose
$800 if snow wasn't clea ed."
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Mr. Chisholm said the
Worst section of road in the
township's 68.6- mile system
was the Auburn -Nile boun-
daryroadHe said one sec-
tion
of the road had to be •
cleared by putting a loader, a
grader and a -snow blower to
work.. .
The .Colborne Township
crew was lucky during the
height of the storm and their
equipment kept operating.
Toward the tail end of- the •
iveek long blizzard one truck
suffered a twisted rear end
and was Off the road for four
days, leaving only, two plows
to handle the Work, .. f
con-
sists-The-r-towriship-crew----of nine • men ,and ac-
cording to Chisholm they
worked round the clock and
refused to quit. He Said they
Would "get all wound up
trying to beat the *fin iind-I
Would have, to beg them to
quit before, they fell in ,a
heap."
',•Ti- GOBERICH.:;?','
Goderich , tewti'''',Rerratift:
•Stan . Metiata conceded.-that1
his nine -man erew`'hadNeri.
few prahletn:Sen Pared 'to'
their ..township .p parts,
but dittaa Oda,:
,:.lot t
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u;nittr 1/4. r.-
town's' c'ttal .40Stettl
open..He #1.CCC .' 'Worked
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0:S storms on)
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p��r.vlsiblllty,
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erlch 01110'1704d-crei!v• get some help' recently Opening some side roads after
Wa*titOr. In maps! yers. Here 'plow Operator Charlie Bruinsma-leads
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tit* :cut in a drift after finishing:ePening this section Of readivay Just off the
Ville Road. The machineinthe rear IS owned by Radford Construction and
Ied by Robert Machan and was specially equipped to buck the 10 and 15 foot drifts
some reeds, This Part IC tda r eetiOn of road took two days for the Radford
e to clear and *As: opened finally; Friday, after two weeks of closure enabling
e10 e mobile home to get In and out 01 their home withrelative ease. (staff photo)
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