If that is the case, and I think most people hope it is, then this winter will go down in the books as an above average season in terms of snow fall and just slightly above in terms of total number of events. Over the past decade we have just over 40 days per winter that we plow streets. After this weekend's surprise blanket of snow, we stand at 43 events for 2010-2011.
More telling is that while we were just above average in terms of events, we were noticeably above average in terms of the amount of snow. So far this winter our records show a total of 80.5 inches of snow. This is roughly sex feet, nine inches of snow... or about the same as current Detroit Piston's forward Tayshuan Prince.
Since the winter of 1984-1985 the Village has averaged 69.92 inches of snow per winter. So this past winter was above our average for that period of time. All things being equal, I think we're all ready for spring!
With respect to our budget, including this past weekend's snow and plowing. We presently have used just over 64% of our funds allocated for plowing this winter. Last winter we only used about 46% of our budget, but anytime we come in under for a winter we are happy. This winter the Village paid for over 525 hours of plowing. That is the equivalent of over 3 full weeks of 24/7 of plowing.
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