DPW on plowing Lakewood Street

good evening I'm Tony reie with Lakewood Public Works I'm here with Kevin mallister at our Operation Center for snow plowing uh as you know this has been a Monumental storm and it's continuing to go these guys have been on and working for the last 18 hours uh in front of Kevin here is our board where we chart what streets have been done what streets are not done yet that we're going to be dispatching people out to now we're getting our second wave uh of employees in uh if you can notice by our charting board here we can PL plot the progress of the vehicles as they're moving along through the operation and basically Kevin is running the Hub of the operation here we are in constant radio contact with our drivers uh we understand uh there's some inconvenience to Residents it's going to take us a while to get caught up it's a very big storm something we're not normally that we don't normally deal with a lot of our smaller pieces of equipment are not uh significant enough to move the snow because of the weight and the uh depth uh we've been assisting other agencies within the town trying to free up vehicles that have gotten stuck ambulances that have gotten stuck fire trucks even police cars uh it's a bad storm and we're doing the best we can and we're going to continue to uh move forth through this weekend and into Monday cleaning up the roads and just getting everything safe as best as we can so please bear with us and uh we thank you for your patience