Outside the Ice Box café in Norfolk, volunteers were stringing lights around Christmas trees that were just put up Monday morning.

“We’re getting festive all at once,” said volunteer West Lowe, who said the original plan was to space the work on dozens of trees across three days.

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That was before the forecast said 3-6 inches of snow in Norfolk.

“That’s why the rush, the push,” Lowe said.

The rush is also on for crews with the town’s public works department. They spent Monday afternoon loading trucks up with pure salt and pre-treating the town’s roads.

“It’s nothing out of the ordinary for the icebox of Connecticut,” said Jon Barbagallo, the town’s public information officer.

Crews will be back and ready to go by

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