Area crews ready for whatever Mother Nature brews

By Kevin Limiti

It is easy to take for granted the pristine roads that resurface after every snow fall.

When Mother Nature sends the winter weather, it isn’t magic that clears away the snow from the streets but the grit of the workers manning the snow plows and checking for ice in the early hours of the morning.

Cooperstown Streets Superintendent Christopher Satriano said that all starts with the vigilance and hard work of one man, who checks the conditions of the road first thing in the morning.

“During the week, I have a guy who works at 4 a.m. every morning to check for ice,” Mr. Satriano said to The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta. “If he comes in the morning and the streets need to be plowed, he checks the list of on-call snow plowers. If it’s just ice, we have two small sanders.”