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With winter fast approaching, I am reminded of last winter and some of the problems that we had on these back roads that are not County, city, or state roads and I wanted to post this 2 bring attention to problems we had last winter.

Tollgate is a county road and it gets plowed very well as does Allentown Road but the back roads do not get plowed everytime it snows and the ruts of ice were quite damaging to our vehicles

Also there are quite a few trees that are dead or dying that are leaning over hanging the road and some of them are directly over power lines and if we get a heavy snowfall we are most likely going to have trees come across the road and take power lines down with them

I'm not sure if the county can do something about these trees before the winter gets here or if it is something for PP&L to deal with

Some of the trees came down during the heavy wind storm we had that uprooted a few very large trees on Shoals School Road bring them down across the road and on Tollgate as well and the remnants of the trees that were cut up still lying along the roadways on the back roads

I think a day or two spent doing some preventative cutting down will go a long way towards having power outages and blocked roads during the winter when it is a lot harder to address these issues

If it is a matter of money for overtime or an additional employer to please let people know you could even send request for donations

We don't mind paying for services that greatly benefit us directly and there are over 2,000 people living here on Yankee Road and about 10,000 cars a day come down Shollls and Yankee so it is heavily trafficked

Thank you