{"id":278958,"date":"2026-09-04T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278958\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:36:22","slug":"allentown-pennsylvania-residents-dig-out-after-noreaster-dumps-more-than-2-feet-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278958\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown, Pennsylvania residents dig out after nor&#8217;easter dumps more than 2 feet of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania  (WPVI) &#8212; The nor&#8217;easter storm dumped over 27 inches of snow in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but residents are resilient and ready to dig out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clearing snow can be extremely grueling, especially when you&#8217;re dealing with more than 2 feet of fallen flakes &#8211; cue the snowblower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t use it for two years before this storm,&#8221; said Rob Clauss, who was happy to have a snowblower on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/weather\/parts-of-bucks-lehigh-counties-buried-under-nearly-2-feet-of-snow\/10253666\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Communities in Bucks and Lehigh counties see nearly two feet of snow following nor&#8217;easter<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><br class=\" \"\/>Along SW 17th Street, neighbors were working hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The trees are so pretty and everything. I tried taking pictures this morning, but it didn&#8217;t come out too good. Doesn&#8217;t capture the essence,&#8221; said Ellen Ortt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Allentown, the main streets show blacktop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">PennDot District 5 covers the Lehigh Valley and deployed more than 200 plows at the height of the storm. Crews work 12-hour shifts to clear the roads, but on Tuesday night, the focus is salt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/weather\/snowfall-totals-how-much-snow-has-fallen-across-the-area\/10248024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How much snow has fallen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><br class=\" \"\/>&#8220;Especially overnight the temperatures will be below freezing so we want to make sure we salt the icy spots so they don&#8217;t cause any issues,&#8221; said PennDOT Representative, Ron Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Whitehall, plows cleared the roads but the mounds of leftover snow left homeowners searching for their sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t know where the border was so I actually started shoveling the lawn. Then I switched over and shoveled the sidewalk,&#8221; said Shalah Ramadan. &#8220;I have my son and his friends to help. Our neighbors have been trying to work together with snow blowers and broken shovels. We&#8217;re getting it done little by little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The nor&#8217;easter storm dumped over 27 inches of snow in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116791,119,121,120,929,59227,47965,6586,27269,15765],"class_list":["post-278958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-116791","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-snow","tag-lehigh-valley-snow","tag-noreaster","tag-pennsylvania-weather","tag-winter-storm","tag-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278958","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=278958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}