Message to Buena Vista Township Residents from Mayor Chuck Chiarello
and the Township Committee:
We survived the “Blizzard of 2016”. Our Public Works Department began preparations for the storm back on Thursday and Friday. Then starting at 7:30 pm Friday we had 12 men working straight through to 3:30 pm on Sunday with the required 4 hour breaks every 12 hours. We also had 4 pieces of equipment and operators working from an outside contractor.
The crew did an excellent job on 125 miles of our local roads with high winds, sleet and heavy snow. Reports vary from 15 to 20 inches—no matter–it was tough!
Our men will be working during regular hours on Monday and Tuesday or longer to further clean up the roads, widen roads and cut back corners.
The pictures below show some of our equipment and road work.
The are also 3 pictures by local talented photographer J.D. Griffin showing the Richland General Store plus 2 black and white farm scenes right here in BVT. There is also a shot from Collings Lakes of a snow tunnel passage way–thought it looked neat (photo credit: Teresa Kelly). Also, a photos from Morgan Krokos, Pam McDaniels, John Armato and Chuck Chiarello.