Contractors Deal with Slowest Winter in Years – NBC Connecticut

The lack of snow this winter season has been frustrating for companies that make good money removing it.

Its been slow. Today is the slowest winter in the last six years Id say, said Joseph Mandell, owner of Better Lawns & Beyond.

Mandell says usually his crew of six jumps in their trucks when the snow starts to fall and they plow properties all over western Connecticut, from Danbury to Torrington to Canton.

This winter has been busy with work, though not when itcomes to clearing snow.

We do asphalt repair due to peoples driveways get deteriorated.So we will do asphalt patching and repair. Fire pits. Even since the weatherhas been, hasnt been snowing as much we can do cleanups, gutter cleaning. Evendone power washing this winter, said Mandell.

So far this season the NBC Connecticut First Alert meteorologistsreport weve received 25.4 inches of snow, though most of that was in December.

Thats 9 inches below normal.

And with five more weeks until winter is officially over,some are hoping for a change in the weather pattern.

That would be nice if it started snowing more wed be happy.It gives us more consistency. Its either that or if it goes away Id be evenmore happier if the sun came out and we could get into more cleanups and planting,said Mandell.

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