With snow and freezing temperatures in the forecast, city street crews will be out in force.
Snow and ice crews will be on stand-by starting at 10 p.m. Street Maintenance Manager Tim McCorkell said they have a good-sized fleet to deal with any frozen roads and bridges.
"There's 64 trucks that have spreaders mounted on them, and of those trucks, we now have 48 with plows. We gained two more plows this year," McCorkell said.
If you get behind a truck with a salt spreader or plow, obey the sign on it and stay back 150 feet.
"There are times where they may have a clod of salt that comes out the back, and we've had that happen with a vehicle passing and it hit the side of the car, maybe break a window or something," McCorkell said. "And the biggest thing is to stay back and let the people do their work. The more room we have to work, the quicker we can get it accomplished."
Not driving is the safest course of action, but if you must, drive according to the conditions.
"As soon as you see sleet or you think it may be dropping in temperature that it's going to stop freezing, slow down," McCorkell said.
Forecasts call for up to 3 inches of snow and sleet accumulation by tomorrow night. With temperatures set to dip below freezing, McCorkell asks anyone with automatic sprinklers to switch them off.
