Sunshine turns to freezing temperatures ahead of snowy weekend

Griffin Daly, the supervisor at Albright’s {Hardware} and Backyard in Allentown, says the shop simply packed up its winter gear.

“We’re beginning to assume spring,” Daly stated.

And their clients are too.

“I received some tomato seeds and pepper seeds primarily to prepare to begin planting,” stated Joshua Gabriel of Allentown.

Nonetheless, with the anticipated winter storm this weekend, Daly is now bringing again out the snow provides.

“We do have rock salt magnesium calcium merchandise. Fairly loaded and able to roll,” Daly stated.

Each rain and snow are anticipated to affect the Lehigh Valley on Saturday.

Ron Younger, a spokesperson for PennDOT, says they’re preparing for the storm earlier than it arrives.

“All of the vans are loaded up and able to go. Operators are beginning their shifts late tonight,” Younger stated.

Some leftover residual salt is at present nonetheless on the roads from the climate that they had earlier this week.

When the snow strikes in and temperatures begin to drop, Younger says salt vans will hit the roads.

He provides they will be keeping track of the wind, particularly following the winter climate that they had earlier this week.

“With extra winds coming by and the load of snow on the branches, be alert for timber coming down tomorrow as effectively,” stated Younger.

Albright’s is open till 6 p.m. on Friday, they usually’ll be open whatever the climate on Saturday.

“The neighborhood depends on us. We depend on them. So we’ll be open at 8 a.m., no downside,” Daly stated.

Chuck DePrince with DMI Residence Provide in Ardmore stated the climate has been deceptive, and his retailer has left the salt and shovels simply accessible as they put out supplies for spring.

“We put out all of our mulches and packed up all the salts and ice melters and shovels and thought it was over, nevertheless it’s not,” stated DePrince.

PENNDOT spokesperson Brad Rudolph stated this winter is fairly common and that PENNDOT usually makes use of 80,000 tons of salt per winter.

He stated at present, we’re approaching that quantity.

PPL is bringing in 550 further employees on Saturday to assist clients with any potential outages.

When you lose energy, you possibly can report your outage on-line at pplelectric.com or textual content “Outage” to TXTPPL (898775).

PPL and PennDOT suggest at all times having an emergency package readily available with meals, water, flashlights, remedy, and any pet provides chances are you’ll want.

You may sustain with the most recent circumstances and observe plow vans close to you on-line by PennDOT.