Steve Gombach wielded a sledge hammer on icy, treated decking boards with new gloves early Thursday.
Gombach is the hands-on assistant manager at the Lakeland Lumber Company on Lakeland Boulevard, right off Interstate 90 at the Babbit Road exit. Ready for the brutal wind’s chill with two heavy, hooded-sweatshirts, he was layered for an extra cold day Thursday.
With a wind chill factor in the low teens, Gombach is used to Lake Erie’s Canadian wind-swept influence.
“Right now, the wind is not too high, so the hat and the one hood is enough to keep your neck warm, and not allowing the chills to cause a stiff neck,” Gombach said.
Lakeland Lumber is a busy mom-and-pop-sized operation, but Gombach’s new gloves were purchased grudgingly at one of their nationwide-sized competitors. But, warm, dry hands are a crucial necessity to keep lumber sales operations from coming to a frigid standstill in this part of Euclid.
“I have a pair of the FG gloves with Thinsulate. They keep your hands pretty warm, keep them pretty mobile and keeps your fingers loose,” Gombach said.
Just a few blocks west, along the busy Thursday morning I-90 traffic, veteran ODOT highway technician Doug Nenandovich tended to a chain-link fence ripped apart from a recent car crash. The strong fence kept the car from crashing onto eastbound Lakeland Boulevard traffic. The only victims appeared to be a few fence poles.
Nenandovich attended to the fence with gray, thick, leather work gloves with long, sewn-in, wind protection for his wrists. His crew of men and women had a mix of those dedicated to ear protection and those who were trying to tough it out under their hard hats.
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