It's been so mild this winter, Saturday's snowstorm is taking us all by surprise.
According to the National Weather Service, the North Shore of Suffolk County is under a winter weather advisory until 4 p.m., with snow expected to change to sleet at times.
Total accumulation could hit six inches.
So how's it going so far? Are you planning on staying in? Having trouble getting to work? Seen town and snow plow trucks come through already? How are the roads? Tell us all that and more in the comments below. Hopefully the comment thread will help your neighbors out a bit.
You can also add your snow photos by clicking "Upload Photo or Video." Be sure to tell us where you took the photo. Most of all remember to be safe out there.
By Christine Sampson Email the author September 25, 2011 Following a winter season in which Brookhaven spent about $10 million on snow removal – which required the town to borrow against some of its own budget lines – the Brookhaven town board passed a measure on Tuesday that puts close to $4.4 million back into the appropriate town accounts. The "housekeeping" resolution, as one town official described it, follows a measure passed in July that put a $6 million bond note out for the upcoming tax year. The highway department's original 2011 budget for snow removal was $3,245,116, so the $6 million bond represents the difference between that amount and what was spent. "We had to borrow money from various accounts to keep things moving," said deputy highway superintendent Lori Baldassare in an interview Friday. "Next year, that will be a separate line on the tax bill so people can see what [the snow removal] costs." When asked about the snow's impact on the town, councilman Steve Fiore-Rosenfeld said in an interview Thursday that the past two winters have been very hard on the highway department's budget. "In the last couple of years [the snowfall] has been very unpredictable," he said. "We got walloped. ... We do everything we can to control the impact on the taxpayers, but you have to clear the snow." http://sachem.patch.com/articles/brookhaven-notebook-town-preps-budget-for-snow-removal
But one thing Harold understood was, at least provide the basic "visable" public services like plowing the snow, and keeping the streets reasonably in shape, and a politician can take what they want and as much as they want ! These "new guys" don't do that...they rub it in your face, take the money, Don't Do The Job and well, and Hide from the Public, and run from their basic job responsibilities ! One of the biggest public gaffes by the present inhabitant of that office space on Independence Hill was going over budget in snow removal money, and coming up with the none to "Bright Idea" and easily "convincing" Chucky Schumer...who Loves To Waste Tax Dollars on various schemes...to ask FEMA for money, too. What, we are not supposed to notice that Brookhaven tax payers, here, are "double charged-double taxed", in affect, for local snow removal...once by their Town property taxes and Again by their Federal tax dollars ! Duh, we were not supposed to notice...because you see, we are Ignorant Tax Payers who can't "add and subtract" !