Mechanic Bill Majest worked on a plow on one of the many Langlade County Highway Department trucks. |
County's winter equipment ready to roll Oct. 27, 2009 The Langlade County Highway Department is ready — for the worst.
Crystal Wells, a spokesman for the department said that most of the machines that clear the snow and ice from area roads are ready to go and while the sun is out today and the temperatures near Indian Summer quality, it hasn’t always been this way.
“We’ve plowed snow in the month of October,” Wells said this morning.
The county has 36 pieces of equipment used in the removal of snow and the campaign to remove ice, and it is essential that they be ready to go when the weather dictates.
And in Langlade County, that can come at any minute.
A half century ago there was about four or five inches of heavy snow that made roads slick and dropped power and telephone lines throughout the area. Dairy cows were milked by hand and the roads were terrible. In addition, there were plenty of problems as motorists had their first sampling of snow and ice and authorities checked out at least eight crashes.
Wells said she is certainly in no hurry for snow to fly, but if it does, the trucks, graders and the supplies they need to do the job are ready for the call.
After all, the first plowable snow is already a little late.
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