What is that white stuff out there? And please note, the city policy is 3 inches of snow, plow residential streets and then declare a snow emergency. They are not calling a snow emergency – which probably makes sense, but is confusing to people when they sometimes call one, and sometimes don’t.
Snow Plowing Updates
by Chris Kelley, Interim Streets Superintendent
posted February 24, 2012 5:05 AM
NO SNOW EMERGENCY BUT RESIDENTIAL STREETS TO BE PLOWED!As of 4:30 am, we have close to 3 1/2″ of snow on the ground. The worst portion of the storm appears to be over. Our newest forecast is calling for maybe another 1/2″ or so throughout the rest of the morning. With the pavement temperature above freezing, the snow that does fall for the rest of the morning should be light and hopefully will melt as it falls on the main streets.
We will begin plowing all residential streets in the City at 7am today. We want to get the snow off the pavement on the residential streets as soon as possible so that there will be less ice formed from traffic driving on the untreated residential streets and compacting the snow into ice. We hope to have all residential streets plowed by 5 pm tonight.
We will not declare a Snow Emergency as a result of this storm. We feel that the warmer temperatures forecasted will negate the need to declare a Snow Emergency for the next two nights.
Remember that this snow is heavy and wet with a lot of moisture in it. There will be “snow boulders” rolling off the plows and there will be quite a bit of wet and heavy snow at the bottom of all of our driveways to shovel. Please use caution when you shovel today as this snow is full of water and very heavy.
