February 2010 will now be remembered as the snowiest in the last 100 years in many parts of Ohio.
Maybe especially in Mansfield, a central-Ohio town that had nearly 50 inches of snow to nearly double its previous record for the month.
“It was coming down faster than we could clean it up a lot of times,” said Mansfield Mayor Donald R. Culliver. “We got to the point that we had to haul the snow out of the downtown area and dump it out in a field just to make room.”
“We just had nowhere to put it and we’ve never had a month like that.”
But Mansfield — often dubbed the “second snow belt” by leery drivers on Interstate 71 — was just one among many snow-beleaguered spots in Ohio last month.
Although Cleveland fell just short of setting a new record, the 31.7 inches of snow that fell at Hopkins Airport ranks as the second highest February.
