Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is asking President Barack Obama for federal aid to help the state cope with January’s record snowstorms.
“I write, first, to alert you that I am preparing a request for federal assistance to address the impacts of the record snowstorm on Jan. 11-12,” Malloy says in his letter submitted Thursday.
“I also want to make clear that this aid is intended to begin to help meet the mounting costs associated with the historic winter weather system that has already stretched both state and local resources to and beyond the breaking point, with at least two months of winter weather still to follow.”
Malloy points to unseasonably heavy snowfall that has blanketed Connecticut and other parts of the Northeast.
Those and the latest storms in the past week have dumped snow and ice that has collapsed a number of residential and commercial rooftops statewide.
The deluge also has strained state and municipal snow-removal budgets.
