Smithtown supe: Residential streets may not be cleared until Tuesday afternoon
Busy town roads in Smithtown will be cleared by tonight, but some residential streets may not be clear until tomorrow afternoon, Town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim told NewsdayTV.
"By tomorrow afternoon, we should have a pretty good handle on having a lot of the residential community streets at least open and passable," he said, adding the town has plenty of salt, sand and employees to deal with the situation.
Town plows took a break from about 4 to 6 a.m. because of low visibility. They will work to open up any residential streets in cases of emergency, he said: "The public can call our public safety department, or 911, and certainly we will have staff respond there."
Parts of Smithtown are experiencing snow drifts up to 5 or 6 feet — conditions Wehrheim said he hadn't seen since the 1980s.
"Please stay home. Don't go out. Leave the roads open for emergencies," he urged.
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