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.

 

[Patchouli]

City of Dallas has 8 snow plows. I thought I read Fort Worth has 5. Couldn’t find a number for the county.
And in Maryland, Baltimore County has 423 trucks and equipment, almost 500 personnel working it, 2700 miles of road to tackle. Haha
In Maryland, the plow truck was also the salt spreader, at the same time.
Road is slushy out front. Was snowing a bit ago.

 

[Magus]

Ten plows, none moving until its over.

 

[dademoss]

Clarksville has 1 plow The county does the big roads and ODOT does the highway.

 

[montanabill]

70% of the roads in montana are not paved so some trucks are worked year round.
Every fall there are advertisements for snow plow drivers..
We might have no snow for months or we might get some snow every day for a month..
Living on a school bus route has it advantages since the routes have priority to get plowed first thing in the morning..
With the high winds we have you can be driving on a snow free road and then turn 90 degrees and hit deep snow and drifts that lifted big pickups can get stuck in....

 

[Amish Heart]

No clue how many official plows we have. I know Marvin is paid by the county taxes to plow, and we see him sometimes. But when he does, he leaves big piles in front of our driveway, which is horrible to drive over. Mostly the amish guys just come around and hook something up to the tractor, like the bucket. And our neighbor Marlon clears stuff up with the skidster, like he did for us this morning. We are mostly dirt roads in our town, no stop lights, either. But I took our main road to the bigger town (this road is paved) to take husband in to the docs, and it was not cleared much, and it was not salted either. Just drove 40mph instead of 65. And only one lane was driveable, actually, a half of two lanes put together.