Ice, ice, baby—too cold? Too much? It’s been about 14 years since we received a winter wallop like the snow-smacking we got last weekend. And when C-VILLE revisited our coverage of the blizzard of 1996, we found that our city deals with nearly two feet of the fluffy white stuff the same way it did then. The Department of Public Works attacks main roads with salt, a few folks throw on their cross-country skis…and the rest of us? Well, we stay indoors and pick up a good read. Remember, readers: Much like the mail, C-VILLE must go through.
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Paging through the archives
“And even as City crews scraped and hauled around the clock, residents began to complain. ‘The roads ain’t too good,’ an Angus Road man said, unforgettably, to The Daily Progress last week, summing up what everyone but an Inuit tribesman would conclude. The Virginia Department of Transportation, responsible for clearing County roads, took it on the chin as Albemarlians groused that the streets in their subdivisions remains winter wonderlands as late as Wednesday.”
John Blackburn
January 16, 1996
Getting covered
January 16, 1996
