Connecticut residents marvel at first winter storm

Описание: (28 Feb 2023)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stratford, Connecticut – 28 February 2023
1. Wide of Bill Garry using a snow blower on his driveway
2. Garry clearing snow off his car
3. Close of snow falling as Garry removes it from his car
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Garry, Connecticut resident:
"I'm Bill Garry. I live here in Stratford, Connecticut, and this is our first winter storm on February 28th, which is obviously very surprising. You figure in November, December, January, we would have had snow. Nope. This is our first snow storm, the last day of February. No school today, which is wonderful. And it's a great day to be out here. A beautiful day to shovel snow for sure."
6. Various of Garry removing snow from his car
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Garry, Connecticut resident:
"This is highly unusual for the first snowstorm to come at the end of February. I didn't think we were gonna have snow at all. Today, I thought maybe we'd get an inch or two with a lot of rain, but, of course, here I'm wrong. We'll see. My guess is we're gonna have a snowy March, so we'll see. But we've been blessed to not have too much snow this season. But this is our first one. It's great snow to make snowmen."
8. Wide of a snow-covered landscape
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Garry, Connecticut resident:
"It's beautiful, look around. It's beautiful. The trees are nice. The grass is all covered nicely. It's a beautiful day. And we'll take it while it lasts because it's gonna be 50-60 degrees in a couple of days, and it's all gonna melt."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bridgeport, Connecticut – 28 February 2023
10. Wide of Michael Thomas, his wife, daughter and grandson shoveling snow off their driveway
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Thomas, Connecticut resident: "Yeah, I'm Michael Thomas. I was actually in New York before...This is my first snowstorm in Bridgeport, Connecticut for me and the first of the season."
12. Close of Thomas’ snow shovel at work
13. Wide of Thomas and his family shoveling snow
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Thomas, Connecticut resident: "I'm from the West Indies, Jamaica, so this is really exciting to me. And this is, I just bought this house two months ago, three months ago. I'm... it's pretty enjoyable to see the first, you know, snowstorm of the season. And I have my family out here. We're all sharing it and enjoying it to clean up this little place of ours. So, this is really an enjoyable time for us."
15. Low-angle view of Nylete Johnson-Thomas shoveling snow from her driveway
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nylete Johnson-Thomas, Connecticut resident: "To be honest with you, we were longing for this because this is our first one. So, we were trying you know, we have never, like, owning a home. To, you know, clear snow and all of that, so we were longing for this so, you know. We actually get it today, so we are just enjoying it."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stratford, Connecticut – 28 February 2023
17. Various of a Stratford resident removing snow from a car
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Rodriguez, Connecticut resident: "My name is Lucy Rodriguez. I'm 30 years old. I live in Stratford, Connecticut, and I have been living here for about 25 years now. It's pretty unusual that we would be having our first winter storm in February. Typically, we would be having this much earlier in the winter season, so we were not quite expecting a winter storm, at least the first one, in February. The snow is pretty compact. The roads are fairly bad. There's still about four inches of snow out here, which ... this is with plowing every hour since yesterday at about 9 o'clock. It's been a very unusual start of the year."



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