{"id":3755,"date":"2018-03-02T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:13:53","slug":"batavia-digging-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/batavia-digging-out\/","title":{"rendered":"BATAVIA\/Digging out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipXqI18SKDg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hum of snow blowers, the scrape of shovels and the beep of the plow filled most WNY neighborhoods on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>WNY&#8217;s started to dig out after the overnight snowstorm that dumped a knee high amount of the white stuff on the previously green\/brown lawns of March 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight,\u00a0 State, County, City and Town plows experienced difficulties in attempting to clear the heavy stuff from area roads.<\/p>\n<p>On Rt. 98 in Alexander, several plows ran into trouble near the four lane and needed assistance in getting out of the roadway after getting stuck. A State DOT plow went off the road and caused a traffic slow down in the area. Several hours later the plow was pulled out of the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>On Rt. 20 in Alexander, several tractor trailers and a plow caused a back up when they became stranded in the roadway unable to move. Heavy snow built up along the roadway and made Rt. 20 impassable.<\/p>\n<p>As the morning went on, conditions improved and the salt worked its magic on the roadways.<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Storm Warning is in effect until 1:00 p.m. today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hum of snow blowers, the scrape of shovels and the beep of the plow filled most WNY neighborhoods on Friday morning. WNY&#8217;s started to dig out after the overnight snowstorm that dumped a knee high amount of the white stuff on the previously green\/brown lawns of March 1st. Overnight,\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/batavia-digging-out\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[838],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","tag-digging-out"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-Yz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61440,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/a-message-from-the-city-of-batavia-helpful-reminders-for-winter-weather-from-the-bureau-of-maintenance\/","url_meta":{"origin":3755,"position":0},"title":"A message from the City of Batavia\/Helpful reminders for winter weather from the Bureau of Maintenance","author":"aka","date":"January 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Press release Driving conditions can change quickly so be prepared for those changes. 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