As crews worked to clear snow and ice after one of the worst winter snowstorms in years blanketed the area with snow last week and below-freezing temperatures caused icy conditions to continue, several massive traffic back-ups were reported over the weekend.

Drivers reported being stuck for more than an hour on Abingdon’s busy shopping cul-de-sac of Constant Friendship Boulevard Saturday. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook at 4 p.m. Saturday: “There is heavy traffic congestion in the Constant Friendship area due to roads not being fully cleared of snow and ice. Please be patient and drive safely.”

Valerie Pounds, of Edgewood, called it “a clusterf***. I’ve never seen anything like it in my 41 years of living.”

Pounds, who is from the New York area and has lived in Harford for nine years, said it took her more than an hour to get from Constant Friendship to Edgewood, normally about a 15-minute trip.

Coming from BJ’s, she said: “We got into our car at 1, and at 1:25 is when I saw Chick-fil-A.”

In a Sunday-night video update, County Executive Bob Cassilly noted: “It’s been so long that we had such a deep snow that we had 40 snow plow drivers who had never driven in anything like this at all … We’ve got a good ways to go in this thing yet, so we’ll be slugging through it some more.”

He also addressed the Constant Friendship back-ups, saying: “We were out at constant friendship yesterday and today, trying to clear up some issues there.”

The Sheriff’s Office said “multiple calls from citizens came into the Southern Precinct to report significant delays, of up to two hours, while trying leave the BJ’s parking lot,” said Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Cristie Hopkins about Saturday. “Snow and ice had not been fully cleared from the travel and turn lanes creating a gridlock.  We were on scene from [approximately] 3:30 p.m until 5:15 p.m.”

Despite the ongoing challenges of a weeklong deep freeze following an icy snowstorm, Harford County Public Schools was among the few systems to open on time Monday morning — unlike Baltimore, Howard, Cecil, Anne Arundel, Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, whose school systems were either delayed or closed.

Cassilly said snow plow drivers have been “doing an amazing job, working long hours,” and thanked all first responders.

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