now? obviously it has got to be, at least through the day it must have been chaotic. reporter: it really reminds you, that what we are dealing with here is families. when we arrived here, there were, there is some chaos. some controlled chaos here at an emergency center. but where we are, is where the hospital asked us to park. a bit of the distance away from the emergency room doors. you can see it in some distance behind my right shoulder. the people in the parking lot closest to the emergency room, you could almost experience the horror with them. they were pulling up in minivans, in suvs. these are the vehicles of families, mothers and fathers running out of the vehicles heading to the emergency room. you could see them talking to police outside of the door and
here. they took about 17 snowplows in the town of lyndhurst, they had 150 tons of sought on the gro d ground. they used the twitter and facebook and a reverse 911 system to alert the residents. they had about 16,000 people on the list, informed of the snow, where to park, where not to park within an hour. i want you to talk to my friend anna is from the next town over. good morning, how are you? reporter: i heard you had one heck of a time with your car the other day. tell us what happened. well, i was shoveling myself out at 4:00 hamm in the morning from 4:00 to 6:00 a.m., i was shoveling myself out. after i shovelled myself out, i had nowhere else to go because plows didn t come to shovel the rest of the snow. so i couldn t go to work. i was out of work all day yesterday. reporter: hopefully the boss is understanding. you lived in the area for quite