SALISBURY, Md.– The snow may be over, but there is a lot of cleanup ahead. Some people are not wasting anytime digging out from the winter storm that left several inches of snow behind in Salisbury and most of Delmarva.
When Robert Walkup woke up to snow-covered streets and sidewalks in Salisbury, he said he could not wait to use his snow blower. It was around 7:30 a.m., that he put it to good use. Walkup did not just clear the walkway for himself, but circled around two blocks to clean up the area for others.
I enjoy going around helping people out,” Walkup said. “If I can get the sidewalks cleared off for them, that's what I'll do."
Before Walkup and others in his neighborhood, located on Union Avenue, started digging out, the streets and sidewalks were white. Layers of snow piled up on cars, doorsteps and roofs.
Pamela Ward, who lives around the corner from Walkup, was excited to see so much snow. She did not expect to see six inches of accumulation and said she was not worried about cleaning it up.
" It's really soft, white, powdery snow, so I don't think it's going to be much trouble at all; the only problem of course is none of this is going to melt because it's going to stay really cold," Ward said.
However, it was not cold enough to keep Walkup from making the sidewalks safe.
And over on Elizabeth Street in Salisbury, neighbors were out in full force not only to clear their sidewalks, but lend a hand to their neighbors as well.
"It's neighborly. We've always done it. We've done this, my parents have lived on this street for 45 years so we all have known each other forever," said Rhonda Ford of Salisbury
"We'll probably spend, an hour, hour and a half. The neighbors always get together and shovel together. It's kind of a big social event," Neill Carey of Salisbury said.
And just a few blocks down, Moses Nixon volunteered some of his morning to help an elderly neighbor clear her driveway.
"Well, you don't really want nobody to get hurt. And, somebody looked out for my parents so I try to look out for somebody else's," Nixon said.
The roughly six inches of snow that blanketed sidewalks throughout the city of Salisbury did not stay covered for long in some neighborhoods with so many people willing to go out of their way to help each other out.
