For the third day in a row Thursday, highway departments in Oxford Hills were on the road, trying to keep up with a snowstorm that swept across Maine.
Oxford Road Foreman Steve Brown said poor visibility and the intensity of the snowfall made it hard for the department to stay ahead of the storm.
“It’s not good right now,” he said. “By Friday afternoon, around noon, it should be all clear, but until then, it’s tough work.”
He said the fast accumulation of snow means the sand that’s on the road gets covered as fast as crews put it down.
Norway Administrative Assistant Carol Millett said the road crew was out all night and day, and they haven’t had much chance to stop over the past three days.
“I saw that snow was also being predicted for this weekend, so they’re not going to have much of a break after today,” she said.
Anne Pastore, administrative assistant for Otisfield, said her husband, who plows for the town, had a similar experience to Brown.
“My husband said that he’s been on the road all morning and said that just as soon as the snow is plowed off the road, it’s covered up again,” she said.
She originally planned to close the Town Office at 2 p.m., but when the snow arrived earlier than she anticipated, she decided to close it at noon, she said.
Millett said that as of 12:30 p.m., the Norway Town Office had no plan to close, though she said she could change her mind, depending on how fast the snow accumulated.