Municipal works sanding, plowing, getting ready for snow removal
Since early Sunday morning crews have been working around the clock to keep Medicine Hat roads clear and they’ll be doing so for a while longer.
“We were out all day yesterday from 5:30 in the morning until midnight last night,” says Jeremy Petryshyn, manager of municipal works. “This morning we started again at 4 a.m and we’re focused on our arterial priority one routes we’re doing a lot of plowing on there and sanding of our main areas. Tonight at midnight we’re actually going to shift a crew to start at midnight and we’re going to start doing snow removal.”
It’s an all hands on deck situation for the crews. Petryshyn says those who started at 4 a.m. will do a maximum 12-hour shift and then be back at it when Monday turns to Tuesday.
Sunday’s efforts focused mainly on keeping hills and boundary roads cleared, which were hindered by the swirling winds that forced crews to keep circling back to them on a rotation.