Blizzard Paralyzes State
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probably have to absorb several
days of losses.
The intensity of the storm made
the record books.
Paralyzing the East Coast, from
Florida to Maine, one foot to three
or more feel of snow fell through
out the East, especially the North
east, March 13 and March 14, fol
low by an short-lived, artic-like
cold front that had most of Pen
nsylvania’s schools closed at least
two days this week, with delayed
opening on Wednesday, while rain
fell for most of the day, flooding
small streams and low lying areas.
Television and radio weather
men repeatedly referred to the
storm as a “hurricane with snow.”
Many churches didn’t have con
gregations on Sunday. Most
businesses were closed through
Monday. Many roads and parking
lots weren’t plowed until Monday
or Tuesday, two to three days after
the majority of the snow fell.
High winds, single digit and
sub-zero temperatures locked up
the countryside Sunday, thwarting
efforts to open up highways.
Across the state, because of high
winds and the fine, non-sticky
snow, within a short time of plow
ing open a drifted section of high
way, many quickly closed up
again.
Because of the repeated plow
ings of main traffic arteries, road
crews were backlogged in efforts
to keep secondary highways and
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On Sunday, the governor had
declared a slate of emergency and
traffic was prohibited to those
motorists with vehicles outfitted
with snow tires and chains.
Some emergency and rescue
agencies and institutions had made
public requests for help from own
ers of snowmobiles and four
wheel-drive vehicles, in case an
emergency call required travel to
inaccessible area.
Most all state offices were
closed Monday, as were most
businesses.
On Tuesday, Donald Unangst,
director of the state office of the
USDA Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service, said he
had just started receiving reports
from the field offices which were
just getting back open.
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been some electric out”
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said that Potter County has
requested disaster relief because
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damages from winds and snow that
caused some bam roofs to collapse
and portions blown off, trees being
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Unangst said that disaster relief
will probably not be afforded dairy
producers or those others.
“Right now, the only thing (pro
ducers might be) able to get would
be low interest loans through Far
mers Home Administration,”
Unangst said.
“Unless it’s a special disaster
which has created some of that, but
then usually (the relief) is some
thing related to low interest loans. I
don’t anticipate that now. It was
mostly blocked roadways. But
most of those things can be taken
care of with insurance.
However, the longer term rami
fications for dairy farmers, include
cows not getting bred and field
work being delayed because of
excessive soil moisture.
At Atlantic Breeders Coopera
tive headquarters in Lancaster, N.
Alan Bair, director of member and
public relations, said Wednesday
that while losses to (he members of
the cooperative are not yet known,
a number of cows didn’t get artifi
cially inseminated because of
block roads and technicians being
unable to get to the farms.
“We made sure the bulls (at the
Lancaster stud) were cared for.
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members obviously, is calls for
service were way down because
farmers were busy trying to open
lanes and removing snow. And
many times when we did get a call,
we couldn’t get to the farm.”
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Bair said the cost to the coopera
tive is secondary to the member
farmers’ losses.
However, he said that by Wed
nesday, with roads opened up, and
Warming temperatures, that busi
ness was almost back to normal.
“It’s been picking up everyday,”
he said. “As of Wednesday, we’re
providing service to 100 percent
(of members who requested) or
close to it
“Again, the technician not get
ting in (to the farm), is secondary
to dumping milk. We had a lot of
farmers tell us about the number of
days of milk dumped because the
milk trucks couldn’t get in,” Bair
said.
According to Bair, the coopera
tive service area covers almost the
entire state, and there were no
areas that didn’t suffer because of
the snowfall.
At Lancaster, he said two office
workers worked Saturday and
Sunday in place of the normal
three to four shifts. He said bam
workers also found their way into
work, and some even stayed
overnight
“It was simply loss of buisness
due to natural disaster. One of
those things that happens occas
sionally. But in this case it hit
everyone. The impact, therefore, is
that much greater,” he said.
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also reported tome milk dumping.
They also had to reschedule an
annual meeting that had been set
for Tuesday at the Hershey Lodge
and Convention Center, the first
time it had scheduled a meeting
there. The meeting is to be held
tomorrow at the same place.
Patsy Harrington, a dispatcher
for Eastern Milk, said Wednesday,
“We’ve had a lot of producers
dump milk and we don’t have a
handle on things yet. And we’ve
had several high count (sub Grade
A) loads” that were sold at lower
prices.
Harrington said business was
running smoother by late Wednes
day, with the haulers able to reach
the majority of producers. Howev
er, she said, “Some producers out
'there, with the wind (drifting roads
shut), we can’t get to them.”
At Atlantic Dairy Cooperative,
based in Southampton, Laura Eng
land, spokesperson, said, “ADC
did have some pickups that
weren’t made because of the snow.
But we don’t know how much. We
asking producers to tell (ADC)
field representatives how much
(milk) didn’t go, but that data isn’t
compiled yet”
ADC had suffered some loss of
income earlier this year when
workers at Beatrice Cheese Plant
had gone on strike and ADC was
forced to divert milk normally sold
to Beatrice.
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