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Cold Weather * USA - Snow Warning in effect, up to nine inches predicted
Chicago,Ill,USA -The Chicago Sun Times -December 16, 2007: -- The city Department of Streets and Sanitation's fleet of snow-fighting trucks is being supplemented by 100 garbage trucks that have been fitted with plows, in an effort to clear the rapidly falling snow from city streets... Those garbage trucks, while helping to clear snow, do not have salt-spreading capability, so they are patrolling the streets in tandem with regular snow plows, which are then able to increase their salt-spreading ability, since the garbage trucks are shouldering some of the plowing duties, Streets and San spokesman Matt Smith said... And the city needs as many plows out there as it can get, since "snow is still coming in at a rate of one inch per hour," Smith said. "We'll plow and salt these roadways, but the roads are still going to take a cover [of snow] with those rates"... (The Chicago Sun-Times file: Nearly 100 additional trucks were put out on the streets to fight the snow Saturday morning in anticipation of continued snowfall)Labels: Cold Weather
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