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WELP...ANOTHER SNOW
DAY HERE ON DELMARVA.
SCHOOLS, AND
GOVERNMENT OFFICES WERE
CLOSED -- BUT IT HASN'T
BEEN A DAY OFF FOR
EVERYONE.
WMDT'S JARRED HILL JOINS
US NOW LIVE ON THE PLAZA
IN SALISBURY.
JARRED -- YOU'VE BEEN
TALKING TO SOME
BUSINESSES TODAY WHO ARE
FEELING THE BOOM AND BUST
OF TODAY'S SNOW STORM.
THAT'S RIGHT DAVID...
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY IS
USUALLY BIG BUSINESS FOR
SOME OF THE RESTAURANTS
HERE IN SALISBURY, BUT ONE
I SPOKE WITH IS PRETTY
WORRIED THE áSNOWá IS
GOING TO EAT RIGHT
THROUGH HIS BOTTOM LINE.
FOR OTHER
BUSINESSES...THIS WINTER
HAS MEANT BIG BUCKS
DURING A SEASON THEY'D
ORDINARILY BE HAVING A
PRETTY HARD TIME.
TAKE A LOOK.
SHOVELING MARKET BACK
PORCH
AT MARKET STREET INN
THEY'RE GETTING READY FOR
WHAT'S USUALLY ONE OF
THEIR BUSIEST DAYS OF THE
YEAR.
31:35 ST PATRICK'S DAY HAS
BEEN A REALLY BIG DAY FOR
US 31:39
BUT WITH ABOUT SIX
INCHES OF SNOW IN
SALISBURY...
OWNER ROB MULFORD
ISN'T SO CONFIDENT ABOUT
THIS TIME AROUND.
32:00 YOU HAVE TO
PURCHASE THE ALCOHOL
AHEAD OF TIME -- YOU HAVE
TO PURCHASE CORN BEEF,
AND CABBAGE, AND
POTATOES ALL HAS TO BE
COOKED AHEAD OF TIME 32:07
BUTT
31:44 JUST DON'T KNOW
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
TODAY 31:46
AND IT'S NOT JUST THIS
DAY...
WHETHER IT'S BEEN TOO
DANGEROUS OR JUST TOO
áCOLDá ...THE RESTAURANT
HAS LOST AT LEAST ONE DAY
OF REVENUE EACH WEEK
SINCE JANUARY.
34:05 JUST GET THROUGH
THIS WINTER AND GET TO THE
SPRING 34:07
BUT THE WINTER HASN'T
BEEN A BUST FOR EVERY
BUSINESS...
PLOW TRUCK NAT
THE SOUND OF PLOW
TRUCKS, CLEARING SLUSH
AND ICE HAS BEEN DROWNED
OUT BY THE áCHA-CHINGá OF
BIG BUSINESS FOR
LANDSCAPERS LIKE CLASSIC
LAWNCARE.
CHA CHING!
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45:03 PROBABLY MAKING 10-15
TIMES WHAT WE NORMALLY
WOULD FOR A WINTERTIME
45:07
CHRIS MURPHY HAS HAD
ABOUT 20 GUYS OUT
CLEARING SIDEWALKS AND
PARKING LOTS SINCE
MIDNIGHT.
FOUR TIMES THE STAFF
HE'D USUALLY HAVE.
41:38 IT'S BEEN VERY VERY
BUSY 41:39
THIS IS IS THEIR LAST PLOW
JOB OF THE DAY, BUT THERE'S
STILL WORK TO DO.
44:35 PROBABLY FOR THE
NEXT 2 TO 3 MORNINGS WE'LL
HAVE TO GO OUT AND
REAPPLY SALT TO ALL OF OUR
PARKING LOTS AND
SIDEWALKS BECAUSE
THEY'RE GOING TO REFREEZE
44:42
BACK AT MARKET STREET
INN...
ROB MULFORD IS HOPING
FOR THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
TO BRING IN AT LEAST áSOMEá
BUSINESS.
DESPITE THE PREP, HE
KNOWS ONE THING YOU CAN'T
CONTROL, IS THE WEATHER.
35:01 DO ALL YOU
CAN...SMILE...AND DRINK
SOME GUINNESS
35:06
FOR THE LAWN CARE
BUSINESS...WHILE THEY'RE
REVELLING IN THE EXTRA
WORK THIS WINTER...IT áISá
PUTTING THEM A LITTLE OFF
SCHEDULE.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE
LAYING MULCH AND GETTING
READY FOR THE SPRING, BUT
THAT CAN'T HAPPEN UNTIL
THIS SNOW IS GONE, AND AS
YOU CAN SEE...THAT
PROBABLY WON'T HAPPEN
FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.
LIVE IN SALISBURY, JARRED
HILL, WMDT 47 NEWS.
THANKS JARRED.