By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor
Manville was ready to combat a major snowstorm, but like most of the region was quite satisfied to take just a glancing blow from snowstorm Juno on Monday and Tuesday.
“We’re always prepared for the worst and hope for the best. I think we had the best,” said Mayor Angelo Corradino said.
About six inches of snow had fallen, he estimated from his own shoveling.
The 15 members of the public works department started salting and plowing Tuesday, broke for a while and resumed about 3 a.m. Tuesday, the mayor said.
“Those guys did an outstanding job,” said the mayor.
Residents were cooperative by moving autos into driveways wherever possible. There were few impediments to plowing, and only three cars that had to be towed because they were parked on designated snow evacuation route streets, he said.
He didn’t think there were any serious motor vehicle accidents, and there were certainly no fires he said.
Nonetheless, fire, police and rescue were ready, he said. Members of all pertinent services convened Monday to discuss emergency procedures, he said.
If the borough had suffered the two feet of snow that some predictions had foreseen, services were ready, the mayor said.
Municipal offices and schools were closed Tuesday.
On Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. Gov. Chris Christie lifted a travel ban instituted statewide at 11 p.m. Monday night.
Juno took a path 90 miles east of what the National Weather Service projected, leaving New Jersey with half or less of the projected snow accumulations.
