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By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News Editor
Place 600 snow shovels end to end and what do you get?
Plenty of sales.
Not only the weather has been brisk in
Hood
River
County.
“Nonstop swamped since Thursday,” is how Pepi Gerald described
activity at Second Wind in
Hood
River.
Winter weather equipment and supplies are tough to come by in
Hood
River
County
since the storm hit last week.
Hood River Supply in
Hood
River
and Odell has sold 600 snow shovels in the past week, and six tons
of ice melt.
“We’re running out of everything and anything having to do with
heating and snow removal,” General Manager Pat McAllister said.
“Everything has been reordered but the biggest obstacle is getting
it back in the store,” he said. “If it’s from the west, no
chance.”
Many businesses are stymied by the stoppage of goods due to the
closure of Interstate 84 for the past three days.
Snowblowers, ice melt, shovels, heat tape, all are either sold out
or close to it at stores including McIsaac’s in Parkdale,
according to hardware manager Rick Cain.
“We went sledding at Little John Sunday — oh, that’s right, we’re
out of sleds,” Cain said.
For the complete article pick up a copy of the December 24
Hood River News.
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