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NO INJURIES, ONLY MINOR DAMAGE – Occasionally violent thunderstorms, heavy rains and sporadic winds made local driving an adventure during the just-ended Easter holiday weekend. Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township police responded Saturday (April 23, 2011) to the scene of yet another vehicle that wound up in a drainage ditch at the curve on the south side of North Pleasant View Road in front of the entrance to the former Saylor’s farm, between Donna Lane and North Sanatoga Road. Most drivers caught here travel a little too quickly down the hill south from Sanatoga Road, most often under wet or icy conditions, and fail to negotiate the curve. The young driver in Saturday’s incident (above) was startled but not injured. His car received relatively minor damage (corner bottom right), was quickly towed out of the ditch (corner bottom left). He was able to drive away.

BRINGING IN THE BOUNTY – With the modern homes of his neighbors as a backdrop, an area farmer used a combine Sunday (Oct. 31, 2010) to collect his crops from the large field at the southwest corner of Bleim and North Pleasant View Roads in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township.

SUNDAY WAS A SLICK DAY FOR DRIVERS – Rain throughout the day Sunday combined with variable blasts of arctic air, according to AccuWeather, to create roads that were simply wet in some spots to dangerously icy in others. Depending on where they were, drivers encountered freezing rain, sleet and fog, too. Ice formed in the shoulders on North Pleasant View Road in Lower Pottsgrove PA, for example, above, but state and township road crews were out early with salt trucks to try and minimize problems. Monday’s weather is expected to be significantly warmer and drier.

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SANATOGA PA – “Problems with an arcing wire” were cited by Lt. Mike Misiak of the Sanatoga Fire Company‘s fire police crew as the reason for closing a portion of North Pleasant View Road this morning (Wednesday, June 24, 2009) sometime after 4 a.m.

A PECO electric utility crew was on the scene for repairs, Misiak said, but the cause of the problem was not immediately known. Fire company Engine 58-1 also was on the scene. North Pleasant View was blocked from Buchert Road south, and through traffic to and from East High Street was being diverted via Kepler and Sunnybrook Roads.

The road was re-opened by 5:15 a.m.