PEN ARGYL, Pa. – A broom isn’t your typical winter weather clean-up equipment, But Linda Hill in Pen Argyl says it’s the only thing that’s working after Friday night’s storm.

“You can’t get to the bottom of it, because the ice is on the bottom,” she said. 

The storm brought a wintry mix – with snow packing down on top of the ice leading to slick and covered roads.

“The side roads are an issue around here,” Hill said. “I’m not going anywhere for a while.”

Down the road, the Fiducia family tells me they started clearing the road and sidewalks around 6 a.m..

“With the icy conditions, with the snow on top and the ice on the bottom, it was a little tougher. We were able to get the snow off first and are looking to salt to get the ice cleaned up,” said Chris Fiducia. 

Fiducia says out of the storms our area has seen since November – this one has been the worst.

But fortunately, he stays prepared with shovels and bags of salt for the salt bucket.

A tip he recommends to others.

“We usually stock up on salt because, especially last minute, these stores run out, so we try to get as much as we can,” he said. 

Over in Bangor, a plow truck is working to clear a parking lot with the same issue of packed ice.

One resident we spoke to says he had to drive through the storm last night and the roads were the worst he’s ever experienced growing up in the borough.

“It was just straight ice, it was crazy. I’ve never really seen that,” said George Dalessandro of Bangor. “I have to go get some salt. I have to get a lot of salt cause it’s just still ice underneath it.”