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Raymore officials report winter-storm response after historic ice and snow
Summary
City staff told the Raymore City Council on Jan. 13 that crews kept main routes open during a multi-day ice-and-snow event that produced about 11.5 inches of snow total; public works described hours, materials and miles driven and police reported limited storm-related calls.
Raymore City staff reported to the City Council on Jan. 13 that the city’s emergency management, public works and police departments coordinated a multi-day response to an ice and snow event that began Dec. 4–6 and included additional snow on Jan. 9–10.
Emergency Management Director Mark Baldwin told council members the event produced roughly four‑tenths of an inch of ice on Dec. 4, followed by about nine inches of snow on Dec. 5–6 and an additional 2.5 inches on Jan. 9–10. "Altogether for the week, we got about 11 and a half inches of snow," Baldwin said, and added that wind gusts topped 30 miles per hour and overnight lows reached the low single digits.
Baldwin said the city monitored Evergy outage maps, saw a short outage affecting about 200…
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