A family shovels snow in Waupaca County. PC: Fox 11 Online
(WTAQ-WLUK) — It doesn’t matter that it hasn’t snowed for more than a week. Residential streets, sidewalks and driveways around the Green Bay area are still covered in packed snow and ice.
But with our weather finally warming up, some like Brandi Theeke on the east side of Green Bay were making the most of it.
“It got so cold, everything just kind of froze and stayed there. So now, get to come out and get rid of some of this snow off my driveway,” said Theeke. “Especially by the doors.”
It’s not like city crews weren’t doing their best to clear the streets. Once it gets as cold as it did last week, salt just doesn’t work very well. At that point, it doesn’t make sense, logistically or fiscally, to keep putting more down.
And the conditions leading up to our two big winter storms didn’t help, either.
The warmer weather in early January might have been nice as we had it, but it ended up being a bit of a problem because road temperatures were also warm.
So, as that snow started to fall, it melted initially. And then that water, once it got cold, froze right down into the road surface and made it almost impossible to get that ice up once it was there.
But now, all that is changing. Village of Howard Public Works Director Geoffrey Farr expects things to improve quickly the next few days.
We’ve been actually eyeing this little warm weather pattern for a number of days now, watching it, kind of hoping and praying it’s gonna show up, and it does look like it’s gonna do that. Right now, it’s nice and warm out. The sun is out, which makes a big, big difference, and we’ll be out scraping the roads tomorrow in a heavy fashion.
Nor does Farr think the snow will melt so fast that flooding will become an issue, either. He says we’re warming up just enough and at just the right pace to hopefully avoid that.
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