Commercial Winter Summaries

November

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Wednesday, November 20 : An inch or so, but a coating to a half inch stuck for awhile

During the morning hours of Wednesday, 11/20 - we did have a band of snow move through. It did dust the grassy areas and/or raised colder surfaces. But on pavement, it mostly melted with the warmer ground temperatures at the time of this event.

Through the day, snow showers continued to spin around a low pressure system and usher cooler air in as the temps dropped. Most snow accumulation during the day was light, and once again not on pavement.

Later in the afternoon on the same day through the evening, we had a couple heavy bursts of snow that ended up covering and creating ice on pavement. The pavement temps continued to drop, combined with no more chemical on the roads, then it became dicey, even on highways.

If you are signed up for salting sidewalks and/or parking lots, C N’R did go out to complete a full salting route for all commercial properties. This was all finished up by 10pm that evening.

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December

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 : 0.4”

We had another coating of snow that fell very slowly between about 11pm - 4am. Parking lots were holding about .25”-.40” of snow, and sidewalks were closer to a half inch. Early during the morning of Monday, 12/2 - we shoveled commercial sidewalks and added plenty of salt as the recent cold temps have really cooled ground temps down and any moisture now is becoming ice quickly. Also, all parking lots signed up for “parking lot” salt were salted. Also, quick note, if you are a commercial property where we do not do any work unless we do get 1” or more of snow, we did not complete any work on these accounts for this particular event.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 : Rain to sleet/snow showers, then a flash freeze

During the morning hours, we had a powerful cold front move through that brought a quick batch of rain, freezing rain, sleet, then snow showers. The band of rain/freezing rain/sleet came through in a line with this powerful front. So it did not last long, but it was strong and the sleet started to accumulate. The rest of the day was just snow bursts and snow showers.

When the line came through it was about 33-34 degrees at about 9am, and by noon we were down to 23 degrees with wind gusts from 35-45 mph. You can imagine that things froze up quickly so this was a salting event.

All commercial properties signed up for salting of sidewalks, we checked on all sidewalks, but some did not need much attention. Some did. Same with parking lot salt, some needed attention and some did not. Why did some not need attention? Because we just heavily salted a couple days ago, plus the strong winds helped dry things somewhat as the temps dropped, therefore there was less icing than expected.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 : 0.4"

We had another cold blast roll through the area basically from about 11pm on 12/10 until about 3-4am on 12/11 (very early in the morning). This blast brought another similar bout of snow along the front and dropped a heavy fluffy coating of about 0.4”, maybe 0.5” in spots, and in some areas we were measuring more like 0.2-0.3”. Some areas may seem thicker because the winds picked up after it was done snowing and blew the fluffy snow around. The snow liquid ratio was in that 15:1-18:1 range. That means it had very little water content.

This was NOT plowable. Even if we tried to scrape a little bit up, it was such a small amount because of the high ratio. So, this became a heavy salting event just like the last couple. We salted/shoveled commercial sidewalks, and we salted parking lots. If you have an agreement with C N’R that is only perform plowing and shoveling at 1” or more, we did not hit that threshold, therefore these particular properties were not touched. If you are signed up for sidewalk salting, then you were shoveled and salted.

This took place between about 3am - 8am that morning.

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SATURDAY/SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14/15 : 0.1” snow, plus ice/sleet accumulation

Prior to this smaller storm system arriving our surface temperatures were 15 degrees. So, anything that fall and melts is going to freeze and/or re-freeze. All day on Saturday, December 14 we received freezing rain, some sleet, and some snow mixing in. It was off and on with breaks, etc. Some sidewalks were melting due to salt residue, some were not. Same with parking lots. But, during the later afternoon/evening, we had a stronger band move through with freezing rain and snow mixed in. This made for all parking lots (who are signed up for regular salting) needing salt, therefore, during the afternoon/evening of 12/14, we applied parking lot salt.
We waited on sidewalks as freezing fog/drizzle continued through the night, so sidewalks were attended to as needed during the morning hours of Sunday, 12/15.

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