Brick May Not Get Snow Today Or Tonight, But Town Is Ready

As much of the Northeast braces for the first wintry weather of the season, Brick Township officials say the town is prepared for what Mother Nature might have in store.

“The plows are ready; we have as much salt as we have room for,” Brick Township Council Vice President Jim Fozman said Tuesday at the council meeting.

Current predictions from Accuweather.com suggest the morning’s rain will change over to a snowy mix later this afternoon, which will make driving hazardous but should not require the plows in Brick.

Fozman, the council liaison to the public works department, said all of the public works equipment was checked to ensure it is in working order. There is $600,000 in the township’s snow fund for this winter’s storms, he said. And the mound of salt the township has is enough for four storms.

That is at least enough to get started if this winter is anything like last winter, which was one of the more disruptive in New Jersey over the past several decades, according to the Office of the New Jersey Climatologist at Rutgers University.

There were 20 snowstorms in the state last winter, according to the state climatologist’s website, beginning with the Dec. 8 storm that brought up to 5 inches to Brick after predictions had been for a milder impact, and ending with the March 25 storm in which Brick received about 2 inches.

Of the 20 storms statewide, 10 brought accumulations of 2 inches or more, with three of them bringing five inches or more, including the whoppers of Jan. 2-3, that dropped upwards of 10 inches on the town, and Jan. 21, which brought nearly a foot of snow to Brick.

The Feb. 12-13 storm brought as much as 4.3 inches of snow, according to the climatologist’s snowfall totals list, and the March 3 snowstorm brought as much as 4.2.