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Short Beach Neighborhood Bands Together to Clear Road (Photos, Videos)
Little Bay Lane was cleared down to pavement thanks to some good old-fashioned elbow grease as neighbors cleared the entire street by hand.
While many Branford residents looked out at uncleared streets, the people on Little Bay Lane in the Short Beach section of town decided to take on the Blizzard of 2013 on their own.
"We knew the town was swamped with this snow and we decided to take matters into our own hands," said Jeff Cave. "It started with a path and grew into a good old-fashioned New England neighborhood gathering."
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Cave said that some of the families on the street have been there for three or four generations, making for a tight-knit neighborhood, though he admits that the storm "definitely brought us closer."
With many generations living on the street, Cave said everyone in the neighborhood from eight to 80 pitched in.
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"This is the result of the residents of Little Bay Lane in Short Beach pitching in and helping each other," he said. "This was dug out by hand – no town plows were able to get down there so the New Englander in all of us took over."
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