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STATEWIDE

Snow Days Across the State

                                                                 Knoxville
                                            Collierville

                                                                 Knoxville

                                                                                        Knoxville

Collegedale                                 accumulation because it was 37 degrees      before the event and a mixture of salt and
                                            when it started snowing, but we did have    sand after the sleet and snow event. We
By Eric Sines                               a lot of ice later due to the moisture and  had about 130 calls to turn off water
                                            temperature.                                service to homes that had frozen water
  We did get about 1/2 inch of snow,                                                    pipes.
which melted on the roads, and with         Collierville
temperatures at 30 degrees and falling                                                  Kingsport
we did treat our roads. We actually         By Bill Kilp
pretreated our bridges and major hills        We put chains on the Automated            By Ronnie Hammonds
and intersections in the morning around                                                   On the morning of January 15, we
8 a.m., and then transitioned into using a  Garbage Trucks and put three extra on
salt/sand mixture around 3 p.m. We were     the routes because of the conditions, all   started getting forecasts of a Winter
able to stay ahead of the ice that formed   went well - eight in total - so we did not  Weather Advisory for the Kingsport
once the temps dropped from 30 degrees      get behind on garbage collection. We        area. They were giving accumulating
to 9 degrees with a wind chill temp of -5   put off collecting recyclables because the  snow with fast falling temperatures for
degrees. That being said we did not have    Recycling Center we go to was closed.       the afternoon of January 16. At that
any weather related accident thanks to      We did not pick up yard waste for two       time (about 9:30 a.m.), we started our
our Public Works crew and getting ahead     days. We had our two plows and spreader     pre-treating crews on their emergency
of the storm.                               trucks treating the roads. We also treated  schedules. The crews consist of three
                                            the bridges and roads with salt brine       pretreating trucks that put down salt
   Sadly, we did not get much

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