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Pike County officials outline winter-storm response; road crews limited by cold and equipment
Summary
Officials warned residents to expect limited salt effectiveness in frigid temperatures, reported 6 full-time special-crew employees and roughly 52 road-department staff, and described plans to prioritize plowing until conditions allow effective salting. Local fire departments offered support for outages.
County officials used the special session to detail winter-storm preparedness and operational limits for road clearing.
The judge and road staff warned that in frigid conditions pretreating and salting can be ineffective or damaging: "The pretreating the way that they're saying that this system would come in, honestly, it would just be a waste of salt," a road supervisor said. Officials…
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