NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 19, 2000 CARY
CREWS CLEAN UP AFTER FRIDAY’S STORM; CARY, NC – Town of Cary Public Works & Utilities crews worked throughout last night and into today clearing as many as 30 fallen trees from streets, sidewalks, and rights-of-way after a severe thunderstorm with damaging lightening and high winds moved through the area during rush-hour Friday. Hardest hit seems to be the southeastern part of town near Regency and Lochmere. The storm caused numerous power outages, traffic accidents, and even a few structure fires; Cary 9-1-1 answered 120 calls during one hour. "Several Cary parks, including Ritter and Regency have suffered substantial vegetative damage," said Mike Bajorek, Town of Cary Public Works Division Director. So far, no damage to park structures, however, has been found. Bajorek warned that it might take several weeks to complete the cleanup and restoration. "We want everyone to know we’ll be working hard to get things back to normal as soon as possible and to understand that it’s going to take us some time." In terms of their own restoration, Cary citizens can bring vegetative storm debris—excluding tree stumps--any day of the week during daylight hours to a designated section of the Cary Convenience Center (Old Public Works facility), 316 North Dixon Avenue. Town of Cary storm debris collection will occur as part of the week’s regular yard waste pickup for vegetative debris that is a maximum of 4 inches in diameter and 4 feet maximum length. As always, loose debris should be securely tied into bundles. To ensure collection, citizens need to have debris curbside—but not in the street-- by 7:00 AM on yard waste day—Monday. ###
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