Smithtown highway chief Glenn Jorgensen talks blizzard response
Glenn Jorgensen is the Highway Superintendant in the Town of Smithtown. Credit: John Dunn
“We did not have a department head meeting before the storm. A department head meeting surely would have helped," he said. “We haven’t had many department head meetings before storms...I prepared the best I could, with what I have -- equipment-wise and money-wise.”
Did you contract to smaller trucks to clear the side streets that were unable to do so?
“I called in about 40 private snow plowers and pick-up trucks... They usually do dead-ends and intersections. They were having trouble also. In fact, some of them went home -- left the job -- because their pick-up trucks couldn’t handle the amount of snow, which also made me fall behind a little bit.”
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