East Liverpool’s Bobby Smith and Leetonia’s Kevin Siembida were two mayors who could be found behind the wheel, pushing snow at the height of Fern’s fury Sunday.

Smith, as the top elected official of a city with union street employees, didn’t let that cloud his willingness to help.

Smith explained Monday morning that he planned to be out again shortly with a plow mounted to his white pickup truck.

“I plowed Sunday from 5 a.m. until (the plow) broke at 7 p.m.,” he said, adding that after dropping a couple hundred dollars for the repair he hoped to be back after returning from Canton for the fix. “You win some; you lose some.”

East Liverpool mayor Bob Smith snapped this photo of the scenic Ohio River from his overlook atop a hill in the Pottery City in midst of plowing. (Submitted photo)

Upon returning to Leetonia from his day job around

2 p.m., Siembida himself was preparing to head out for a few more hours atop the village’s Holland tractor, which he used to plow alley and back roads, allowing the village’s plow trucks to plow primary roads.

Siembida, who co-owns a construction company, explained that it is something he has always done to help out. After all, he has familiarity with heavy equipment through his construction background.

Unlike Smith, Siembida only has around seven hours a day to dedicate to plow duty. However, he also added that his constituents have helped crews immensely by staying home and off the roads, which allows streets to get treated faster.

“Every hand helps to make quick work of it,” Siembida said before mentioning the cold temperatures probably will not permit this first 15 inches of snow to disappear before the next storm arrives next weekend.

“I am pretty excited where we are with plowing,” explained Leetonia assistant village administrator Roman Ferry.

He said crews, including with the mayor’s help, have plowed for 36 hours and not used any salt as of Monday morning. He hoped to see the streets in shape by Monday night.