The storm started mid-day on Monday and continued through to the early morning hours of Tuesday, leaving Westporters with 8-10 inches of wet and heavy snow.  The combination made for very slippery going through the evening and caused both delayed school openings for town schools on Tuesday and widespread cancellations throughout the region.  On a relative scale, Westport was spared: towns little more than fifteen miles away received at least twice as much snow, and Eastern Connecticut coped with more than two feet of snow in many locales.

The Merritt Parkway was closed for nearly an hour just south of Exit 41 Monday evening as road crews removed downed trees that had completely blocked the major artery.  Town plows were out in force very quickly, as they have been in all of this season's storms, and had created passable conditions by early Tuesday throughout most of the town.  A sunny and mild Tuesday morning brought snow crashing down from overloaded trees and utility wires, adding a second wave of chaos, but by the afternoon the mild temperatures had helped to clear away the worst of the storm from local roads.

2/7/01 John Blossom

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