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Snowplow crews keep on riding out blizzard

Originally published: February 9, 2013 6:07 PM
Updated: February 9, 2013 6:56 PM
By BILL BLEYER bill.bleyer@newsday.com

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Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Highway Maintenance Supervisor Ryan Cole inspects the blade of a plow at the NYSDOT Syosset Maintenance Facility. (Feb. 9, 2013)

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In 11 years of working for the state Department of Transportation, Ryan Cole has spent most of his time doing "various things -- fixing potholes, cutting grass, fixing guardrails."

But when snow falls, the 33-year-old highway maintenance supervisor from North Lindenhurst switches gears to work marathon shifts driving a 10-speed dump truck filled with salt and equipped with two plows.

He...

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