Smithtown Patch reader Ian Stovall sent these shots of a town plow getting stuck moving the heavy snow on Sheryl Crescent in Smithtown.
"Truck #42, a single rear axle dump truck plow is now stuck on Sheryl cres!" he wrote on the site.
In an email to Patch he added, "#42 was stuck for about an hour - #67 came down the hill, went around him, and kept going. A few minutes later a payloader came by and dug out #42."
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I don't seem to see you attacking & threatening the reporter, editor, or publication, all of whom are actually responsible for getting this material out to the public! Nor am I cowardly hiding behind a false name to threaten people!
Don't like a little light shined on your patronage job that passes for Civil Service?? That doesn't sound like good intentions. Did you go out to see if the driver was OK? Did you offer to call for help? No, you were doing the patch a service by "letting people know how bad the conditions were on the roads" please, we all knew how bad the roads were and how roads weren't getting cleared. I think there were many variables involved. 2wd trucks getting stuck, drivers whom like residents never experienced 30" 's of snow in 12 hours, old equiptment in need of updating$$$ and not enough pay loaders to open roads for the 2wd plow trucks. The notion that employees slowed down to hurt the political careers of Vecchio and Jorgensen in my opinion is ridiculous. Most employees are also smithtown residents. "The patch" has just become a nasty political debate site. Check other states patch website. The vicious bickering going on here is really not going on anywhere else. So take your pictures, do your "duty" for the patch. Karma, let me know how it works for you. Thank you to the town employees for trying, the state and the county had the same if not worse problems with newer and bigger equiptment.
The point was that plows were actually in my neighborhood, which was the question the Patch asked. This particular driver refused help from neighbors, and spent 50 minutes rocking over the same 10' - 15' of flat ground. If you watch closely - a neighbor is trying to move snow out of the street behind him with a snow blower! In 2013 one can make a pretty good guess that the truck has a radio, and the driver a phone. What level worker or management ineptitude or malfeasance is to blame is not for me to decide, but since I'm the one attacked, and threatened by purported employees of the highway department or their families, I guess I'm just going to pass my info along to the various agency's that concern themselves with these matters.