Feb 02, 2022 9:10 PM

Snowfall by the numbers: Three inches and 73 parking tickets

Posted Feb 02, 2022 9:10 PM
Jeff Scott, a longtime member of Eagles Aerie 150, uses his pickup truck to plow the Eagles parking lot on Mount Pleasant Street Wednesday, Feb. 2. Photo by William Smith.
Jeff Scott, a longtime member of Eagles Aerie 150, uses his pickup truck to plow the Eagles parking lot on Mount Pleasant Street Wednesday, Feb. 2. Photo by William Smith.

By Beacon Staff

The 2 to 3 inches of snow that fell on Burlington late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning didn’t cause much in the way of mayhem. Traffic accidents were minimal, but the number of snow route parking tickets was much higher.

According to Burlington Police Sgt. Chad Zahn, 73 tickets were issued to vehicles along snow emergency routes Wednesday morning. A snow emergency for Burlington was issued earlier this morning, when snowfall totals exceeded two inches.

That means vehicles parked along snow routes that have been ticketed will be towed, until the city cancels the snow emergency. As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, no vehicles had been towed, Zahn said. Plows will be returning to the emergency routes to plow snow to the curb.

Though a winter weather advisory remains in effect for Burlington and the surrounding area until 6 p.m. tonight, there is no more snowfall in the forecast. Wind chill values will dip as low as negative 5 degrees tonight, and as low as negative 10 degrees Thursday.

Though the low for Thursday will be in the single digits, the high will be 18 degrees. By Friday, that high will rise to 29 degrees, and move up to 32 degrees on Saturday.