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With More Snow Expected, What to Do With the Old?

Highway department looks for places to park the accumulated snow.

While experts are offering tips on how to drive safely in the predicted "wintry mix" expected early Tuesday, others are worried about what's already on the ground.

Many drivers passing through intersections are reporting having trouble seeing into oncoming traffic because huge accumulations are blocking their view.

Huntington highway superintendent William Naughton said, "There are limited resources and we are remediating these problems on intersections of main roads first as that is where the traffic is moving the fastest.

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"The town is letting us use some town park parking lots and we have our own facilities for the snow we are removing."

Asked about the possibility of dumping snow into the harbor, he said, "The NYSDEC (state department of environmental conservation)  would not like this because of the garbage (bottles, cans, garbage cans, shopping carts etc) in the snow."

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The National Weather Service is predicting another 2 to 5 inches of snow throughout the day Tuesday.


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