And Mr. Menino said the city's public-works department was at the ready with 34, 000 tons of salt and more than 600 pieces of snow-removal equipment.

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The town received 100 of the 300 pieces of snow-removal equipment loaded to Long Island towns from the New York state Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City and Westchester County, said Vanessa Baird-Streeter, Suffolk County spokeswoman.

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