Area cleaning up after weekend storms

PORT CLINTON – Residents, city crews and business owners worked through Monday to clean up downed trees and limbs, debris and leaves from high winds and rain this past weekend.

Rising waters from the Portage River and Lake Erie spilled out onto North Jefferson and North Madison streets, where business owners had placed sandbags along doorways in an effort to keep water out.

The parking lot for Water Works Park became a lake of its own, but no city property was damaged in the weekends “Nor’Easter.”

“We came through unscathed,” said Max Upton, administrative assistant to Port Clinton Mayor Vince Leone. “We got lucky.”

Both Perry Street and W. Lakeshore Drive had debris strew along both sides of the road on Saturday, and a small pine tree was uprooted by the heavy winds coming off the lake at the Admiralty condominiums, laid across the parking lot on Monday afternoon.

Tracy Colston, Safety-Service Director, said service department workers focused on cleaning up the parking lot at Water Works Park and the downed limbs ahead of the Fourth of July weekend on Monday and will keep at it the rest of the week.

“We had to put a plow on a truck and plow Lakeshore Drive,” Colston said. “That’s a little odd considering its June, but that’s how we could get the stuff off the road.”

Colston said he thought the police, fire and service departments all worked well to keep residents safe and to clean up quickly.

The force of the waves pushed around some of the barriers along the park but we moved back into place on Monday. Minor sand erosion on the city beach will be looked at later in the week, he said.

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