With municipalities still trying to clean up from earlier storms, the National Weather Service has once again issued a winter storm watch for the region.
The watch starts Tuesday morning and runs through Wednesday.
The latest forecast from the National Weather Service calls for another 8 to 12 inches of snow, plus up to a half inch of ice on Wednesday.
The weight of the snow caused the canopy of a Shell gas station in Shelton to collapse around 2 p.m. Saturday.
No injuries were reported at the Bridgeport Avenue gas station.
In addition, Derby emergency officials responded to a report of a man falling off a roof Sunday.
Also in Derby, Public Works Director Ron Culmo said he’ll have crews working today in the Smith Street area near Seventh Street and the nearby side streets. Those streets have been tough to clear because they’re narrow and clogged with parked cars.
Another crew will start working on Caroline Street near the library today and then moving down the street and the side streets including upper Minerva. Next up for Derby — the area around Anson and Lafayette.
Other crews in Derby will be hitting intersections all over the city.
“We just would like to ask all residents to cooperate with us in moving the cars off the street, so that we can clean all the streets to the curb lines. The residents have to bear with us and give us some time to do our work,” Culmo said. “We will not be removing snow from the sidewalks, only to the curb lines. This is to make it easier for parking with the possibility of a couple of more major storms which might hit the area in the next couple of weeks and for emergency vehicles to access these streets.”
In addition, fire departments all over the Valley have been asking residents to dig out fire hydrants buried in the snow.
Fire officials in Seymour and Oxford have notified residents by telephone, with recorded messages, to shovel the snow away from their
hydrants.
“We’ll be out there all weekend, cleaning hydrants,” said Seymour Chief Thomas Tomasheski. “We’re asking people to please shovel out
their hydrants.”
The firefighters are also urging homeowners not not throw the snow back into the street.
