ORWIGSBURG -- It's been a week of digging out for folks in Schuylkill County after last weekend's snow storm dumped several inches of snow.
In Orwigsburg, the snow piles are still stacked high, one week after a snow storm blew through.
Borough officials believe nearly two feet of snow fell Friday into Saturday and many people there still can't get over just how much snow came down.
“Everybody's like, oh we'd like a big snowfall and then suddenly this great big incredible snow, just hung around and just dumped and dumped so people got what they wish for,” said Garson Miller.
Borough manager Robert Williams says they had an attack plan in place well before the storm hit.
When they saw just how much snow was falling Friday night, they got a jump on the storm, putting their plows on the streets around the clock.
“We worked hard at it, and again it was the personnel and the street department, those guys, they worked 24 hours over the weekend until Monday and 12 hour days right up until today,” said Robert Williams.
“Yeah, they started in pretty quick and they were working into the night, you hear the bulldozers running around, I think they did the best could with what they had to work with,” said Miller.
And their hard work shows in the cleared streets around the borough.
“Snow removal, they did a good job, they started Sunday and they finished up, I believe Wednesday or Thursday, they got it all done, taken care of,” said Sue Murphy.
Of course all that snow that's being shoveled away has to go somewhere, so crews have been dumping snow by the truck load inside an industrial lot owned by the borough on Long Avenue.
“We put it in dump trucks and we piled it there. There's piles of snow that may be there in the summer,” said Williams.
“They hauled the snow out at the other end of town so that's down there, so now we're waiting for sunshine and 80 and it will melt. We're waiting, impatiently,” said Murphy.