Snow!

This is what the weather looked like on Friday November 30

This is what the weather looked like 12 hours later on December 1.

First the insult of the cold weather. And now this. We received 6 inches of snow that day. we have received another 3 inches last night. It looks like we will not escape the snow like we did last year. With that in mind lets look at some statistics thanks to the St Paul Pioneer Press (still only 25 cents!).

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has:
767 snowplows
61 reserve snowplows
1460 snowplow drivers
180 auxiliary snowplow drivers

Last year MNDOT used:
182386 TONS of salt
51716 TONS of sand
2.5 MILLION gallons of brine

Granted this is for the entire state. Still, this does not include the various county, municipal, and private pieces of equipment that is also rolling out there. Unlike the Puget Sound area, these people know what they are doing! So this is a big thank you MNDOT and all you other plowers. Keep plowing!