Parts of Lancaster County received up to 8 inches of snow from Sunday night into Monday morning.<\/p>\n
LANCASTER, Pa. \u2014 The snow arrived on Sunday, and for many across south-central Pennsylvania, it didn\u2019t stick around for long.<\/p>\n
The brunt of the storm missed the region, turning what could have been a week of cleanup into a morning of shoveling. Still, for those unable to clear their own driveways and sidewalks, help quickly arrived from volunteers across the area.<\/p>\n
In Lancaster County, Lancaster Snow Angels founder Jennifer Jarvis and her team spent the morning digging out homes and driveways, many belonging to elderly residents, including a 96-year-old Lancaster City homeowner who needed assistance clearing their driveway.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still heavy and not the easiest to move around, but since there\u2019s a lot less of it, it\u2019s doable,\u201d Jarvis said. \u201cA lot of our clients have doctor\u2019s appointments that they need to get to, and with the roads being cleared, and that\u2019s great that they\u2019re able to get from point A to point B, but they\u2019re not able to get out of their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That same spirit of generosity was on display in Columbia, where Michael Laughman, founder of Santa\u2019s Wolfpack, also volunteered to shovel snow for residents. His group focused on clearing cars and parking spaces for appreciative neighbors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tried to slip me 40 bucks. And I said, \u2018No, sir,\u2019\u201d Laughman said. \u201cI just told him, \u2018Look, we\u2019re doing it out of the kindness of our heart.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
While snowfall totals remained manageable locally, many cars and parking areas still needed to be cleared. Volunteers said they were grateful this cleanup effort was limited compared to areas farther east, as the heavier snow that impacted Philadelphia and New Jersey largely passed south-central Pennsylvania by.<\/p>\n
Cleanup efforts remain ongoing, with volunteers continuing to assist residents after the storm, and hoping this will be the final significant snowfall of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201c[I like to] just help out people in the community \u2014 people in need,\u201d Laughman said. \u201cIt makes me feel like I\u2019m an angel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt costs nothing to be kind,\u201d Jarvis added. \u201cAlways help your neighbors and check on your neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of Lancaster County received up to 8 inches of snow from Sunday night into Monday morning. LANCASTER,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-121589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}