Depending on what you were doing this week, Sunday and Tuesday’s snowstorms could have been either good or bad.
By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor
Depending on what you were doing this week, Sunday and Tuesday’s snowstorms could have been either good or bad.
The separate events each dumped between 3 and 9 inches of snow on the region in a fairly short amount of time, causing dozens of accidents due to the icy driving conditions.
South Brunswick police reported more than a dozen accidents on township roads during Sunday afternoon’s winter blast.
The crashes were reported throughout the community including routes 1 and 130, George’s Road, Sand Hill Road and Henderson Road.
The storm came up from the south bringing much larger snowfall totals than expected.
As that storm passed, another headed northwest bringing more snow and ice to the region during the day on Tuesday.
Like its predecessor, Tuesday’s storm caused 28 accidents and 15 other vehicles requesting assistance, according to police.
There were no serious injuries due to either storm, police said.
District schools, the Noor-ul-Iman School, and St. Augustine’s were also closed due to the slippery conditions on the roads.
The impromptu holiday gave the community’s young people a chance to get out and enjoy the snow.
Students were happy to sleep in, relax and enjoy their time playing in the snow.
Many students were at Woodlot Park on New Road in Monmouth Junction, a popular site in South Brunswick on every snow day, where they were seen enjoying sledding, snow boarding, tubing, and having snowball fights.
Julianna Leonardis, 10, a student at St. Augustine’s, said she was having a “good’ snow day by sleeping in, having pancakes for breakfast, “vegging out,” “relaxing and “enjoying sledding’ at the park.
Matthew Harrison, 12, Max Lacorte, 11, and Drew Von Bargen, 11, all friends and students at Crossroads North Middle School, said they were all enjoying the day off together sledding.
Next week officially begins the winter season on Dec. 20.
Special writer Azra Baig contributed to this report.