National Guard to help plow Lynn streets

LYNN – The National Guard will help plow Lynn streets, according to the city’s mayor, who said Saturday evening she is not happy with how clear city roads are after a historic blizzard dumped 23 inches of snow.Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy dug herself out of her snowed-in home and toured Lynn Saturday afternoon. She said she was pleased that only 30 homes lost power but that she had concerns about how well the roads had been plowed by Saturday evening, saying they were in much worse condition than comparable roads in Salem.”There’s a marked difference between the conditions of the roads up there and down here, and I want to find out what we need to do make ours look better,” she said.City plows and contracted plows have been working through the night to do their best, said Manny Alcantara, the director of the city’s department of public works, adding that the operation will be ongoing for several days.”This is one of the worst blizzards that the city has experienced, and then we and every other single city and town in the state of Massachusetts is doing our best, like the governor said, to be sure that every street is open,” he said.Kennedy acknowledged that getting the city back on its feet will take awhile.”This is a lot of snow in one big dumping, and it’s going to take a while before we can get everything getting back to normal. But everybody’s working toward that end,” she said.North Shore officials reported relatively little damage from the storm that dumped 23 inches of snow on Lynn?25.5 in Peabody, according to the National Weather Service.Amber Parcher can be reached at [email protected]”>[email protected]