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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume school will restart on Monday, but I am starting to worry with the way things are going, that not all roads, parking lots, and sidewalks, will be clear and safe by then.  I am new to this area (from the South) and wonder how things usually work.  Will local governments and school officials plow and salt all the roads and parking lots in time?  In the past, how much has the community relied upon higher temperatures to melt all the ice? [/quote]

Aren’t we going to have snow again this Saturday and Sunday? [/quote]

It’s a much lower risk than the storm we just had. The most reliable models have the weekend storm missing us entirely or getting maybe an inch at most.

In response to original OP - we don’t know. This amount of ice accumulation on top of snow is pretty unprecedented. I’ve been here for 14 years and the closest I’ve seen to this was the snow storm we had in 2016. We got a lot more snow with that one/less or no ice, but the end result was very similar - difficulty plowing, snow piled up in travel lanes, cars blocked in. I remember the right turn lane from the street I worked on onto the main road was blocked with a snow pile for weeks, making the afternoon drive home a lot more time consuming because everyone (going left or right from the side road onto the main road, or going straight through the intersection) was stuck in one travel lane. [/quote]

Would Reid restart school on Monday even if conditions are still unsafe? I get the sense that she’s more a political animal than a practical person, so I’m not sure I trust her to make the right decision.  [/quote]

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