WHITESBORO, N.Y. -- It's been a long few days for crews in Whitesboro, as they work around the clock to keep the village safe and dry.

"We were ahead of the ice melt. We were prepared. Equipment, fortunately, was here," said Whitesboro Mayor Bob Friedlander.

It was an all hands on-deck situation.

"Because of the cooperation, I can't stress enough that the State and the County came together with the Village," Friedlander said.

"We just keep an eye on it, and we kind of control down in this area and we try to help the residents out the best we can," said Whitesboro DPW Employee and Resident Kyle Tritten.

The state brought in more workers and equipment to help.

To help break up ice in the creek, workers were relying on these guys, long arm excavators.

"We immediately, upon ice starting to jam up yesterday morning, equipment was in the water breaking up the ice and doing what it was meant to do," Friedlander said.

The recent warm-ups and cool-downs have led to potential ice jams and flooding.

In Whitesboro, those concerns are traced to the CSX Railroad bridge.

However as projects continue and crews keep responding, some think their efforts are improving.

"We've had a few practice runs I guess you could say with the flooding down here, so as we've see a little bit more, it gets better and better," Tritten said.

Whitesboro DPW worker and Sauquoit Street resident Kyle Tritten has hope.

"Yeah I think there's a lot of hope," Tritten said. "There's a lot of other projects going on that are going to be starting up soon."

"I have heard from a few residents thanking the Village for what they did," said Friedlander. "Overwhelmingly happy that this event was caught and stopped."

Culverts built about eight years are also helping relieve the creek.

Governor Cuomo has threatened a lawsuit against CSX if the railroad bridge isn't rebuilt.