County snowplows

[Cabin Fever]

It snowed about 3" overnight. Our county has 12 snowplows on the job clearing our roads. Some of the roads on the map below are state highways, so their snowplowing status is not provided on the map. How many snowplows does your county have? The population of our county is 68,000.

 

[Pearl]

ZERO!! IF our county had plows they wouldn't bother to use them!!

 

[teeceetx]

I hear my county has 1 snow plow.

 

[Cabin Fever]

In Minnesota, we give our snowplow trucks names....

 

[UserNameTaken]

I don't know, probably a half dozen at least. But our county stretches from the Utah line to Lake Havasu and east to nearly Seligman, AZ, including about 1/2 the Grand Canyon, so we go from low desert to 8,000 ft plus mountains. I've seen 18" in a single storm at 4,000 ft.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I think our county has a couple plow trucks and a road grader equipped with a plow and a wing. Our county population is 2800. During a big storm it may take them a few days to clear the roads. Of course they only plow roads that people live on. The state plows the one highway that runs through our county.

 

[Cabin Fever]

One morning, my crazy Texan wife wanted to video the snowplow coming down our road so she could send the video to her family in Texas who have never seen a snowplow. Her video is below.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Speaking of snow videos we make for Texas relatives, here is one of our driveway.

 

[Peanut]

Zero plows and not a single dump truck loaded with sand. Salt? only what I could buy at walley's or for cows at the ag supply store. It's been 5 or 6 years since we got 3" of snow. A snow plow would rust out before it got used. Not a wise use of tax dollars.