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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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