EGG HARBOR, Wis. (WFRV) – Local 5 News tracked down some of the last Door County residents to have their neighborhood roads plowed after the historic winter storm this week.
Their attitude about the whole situation may surprise you.
“We are so patient out here, but they got us (plowed their roads),” Bob Scholl told Local 5 News on Thursday afternoon, saying he’s thankful for the highway department.
Bob and his wife, Lauren, are longtime Door County residents. They live in the Point Beach Road neighborhood in Egg Harbor and said they actually had fun watching from their window as the snow fell and the wind blew outside during the winter storm.
“Just massive wind, the snow was just flying down this highway, it was totally sideways,” Bob said.
“Oh, it was total whiteout, more snow than I’ve ever seen,” Lauren added.
After the final flakes fell, the days slowly began to go by, and still there was no sign of snowplows in their neighborhood. They were able to clear their driveway, but with the roads underneath several feet of snow, they couldn’t leave their house for several days.
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Bob and Lauren said being stranded at home wasn’t too bad and that they had stocked up on food and other supplies ahead of the winter storm in case it took a while for the highway department to clear the roads in their neighborhood.
On Wednesday night, help arrived. The highway department cleared a path out of the neighborhood so that one of the residents could get to an important doctor’s appointment. Although he didn’t want to do an on-camera interview, that resident told Local 5 that he was getting a bit scared when he realized that it’d take the plows a while to clear the roads.
On Thursday morning, more tractors and other heavy equipment came through the neighborhood to clear all the roads. An official with the highway department told Local 5 News that the Point Beach Road neighborhood was one of the last areas they needed to thoroughly plow.
“When I lived here in 1967, there weren’t half as many people living here, and we used to watch the snowplows, and we’d get so excited, because the snowplows came through,” Bob told Local 5 News, saying he had a similar reaction on Thursday when the plows came through.
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In a statement they posted on their Facebook page on Wednesday, the Door County Highway Department acknowledged that there were some roads that they “have not been able to pass through yet.” It goes on to say that because of the heavy drifting on the roads in some neighborhoods, they’d have to bring in heavier plowing equipment like graters and loaders to make the roads passable again.
Local 5 News saw some of this equipment parked in the neighborhood late Thursday afternoon.
“Today we finally got out to Egg Harbor to the grocery store and we bought some coffee; we ran out of coffee,” Bob said about what he did when they finally got their roads plowed and could leave their house. “It was a lot of snow but it’s living in Wisconsin, hey.”
