DERUYTER -- More than 24 hours after the snow started to fall in DeRuyter, neighbors like Christina Jaquith and her dad are still digging themselves out of their driveways and into the streets. Jaquith says, "I've been out shoveling since 9 this morning off and on and my dad and I work together as a team."
Pam Gallerani and her husband Jim are digging through their much more than 20 inches of snow that slammed this small sequestered village yesterday. The transmission on Jim's plow truck broke before the storm and the pair thought they'd be out well into the night. That is until a good samaritan plowed them out. "The snow is really heavy today but I was just kind of cleaning up the sidewalks after them and I didn't have to do the big bank because of the truck," says Pam Gallerani.
DeRuyter was one of the hardest hit areas in Thursday night's storm and as you can see the plow piles are adding up. Neighbors say it has been a pretty mild winter here so far so they don't mind the snow. "We were ready for snow, we wanted some snow days," says Pam as she laughs. As the flakes fall on this friday night, neighbors know they'll be back at it again tomorrow morning.
