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Winter Storm Blasts Kenosha County

By Tom Murray

KENOSHA - It’s one snowy street after another for Chuck Duff. “You start to get bug eyed, just get tunnel vision,” Duff told TODAY’S TMJ4’s Tom Murray from the driver’s seat of a Kenosha snowplow. He spent 16 hours plowing Friday. He took an eight hour break and checked in for another 16 hour tour of duty Saturday. Those shifts are standard for the city’s plow operators during a snow event. Kenosha’s Department of Public Works launched every piece of equipment in their snow-fighting arsenal at 6 a.m. Friday, and most of those trucks remained on the road late Saturday night. John Prijic, the city’s street superintendent, is pushing hard to clear every street in the city before Tuesday’s predicted deep freeze. “It’s extremely important that it get done because once the temperature drops below zero, the hard pack snow will turn to hard pack ice,” Prijic explained. Mark Nagode isn’t thinking about parking on the street. The snow’s so deep in his neighborhood that he can’t even get his cars out of the driveway. Said Nagode, “I’m trying to use the neighbor’s snow blower and it doesn’t seem to want to work for me.” Police issued more than 100 tickets to drivers who violated the city's snow emergency ordinance by parking on city streets. The snow emergency was finally lifted at 10:30 Saturday night.