DARKE COUNTY -- With salt in the trunk, Elaine Laino stays ready.
"I travel a lot from store to store in case I run into any bad weather I can get myself out of it," said Laino.
She says Darke County is one of the worst places to travel during a storm.
"It's terrible when it snows here and I have to drive back to Dayton. And I'm going down Route 49. It's awful because you get the drift on the road and you can't see the road if it's dark out ... it's treacherous," she added.
"With the ground being as flat as is it is here the wind whips through pretty good," said Lowes store manager George Worrell. He says to make sure you have a snow shovel and some rock salt now, before the storm hits.
"Typically it's a lot of times after the snowstorm when the snow begins to melt," said Worrell. "You have people who need help with the water under their basement or recovering from the high winds."
And crews are already preparing before the storm hits, getting their salt and rock mix ready. We called around to our counties north of I-70 and they all tell us the amount of salt they used this year is down from their average.
Auglaize: This Year 900 Tons / Avg: 1,500 Tons
Darke: This Year 1,800 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Shelby: This Year 1,500 Tons / Avg: 3,500 Tons
Mercer: This Year 1,000 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Miami: This Year 1,000 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Logan: This Year 1,200 Tons / Avg: 1500 Tons
Darke County engineers say they didn't spend a lot of money on salt the last two winters but that money had to be spent elsewhere.
"The biggest thing is the fuel," said Shane Coby of Darke County Roadways. "A couple years ago it used to be the biggest thing that influence your budget was the salt."
Crews expect they will need to use a couple hundred more tons of salt with Tuesday's storm.
"I'm glad it's coming because we haven't had a really good snow," said Laino. "I'm from Cleveland and I'm used to a lot of snow so I feel like I'm getting cheated this year so far."
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"I travel a lot from store to store in case I run into any bad weather I can get myself out of it," said Laino.
She says Darke County is one of the worst places to travel during a storm.
"It's terrible when it snows here and I have to drive back to Dayton. And I'm going down Route 49. It's awful because you get the drift on the road and you can't see the road if it's dark out ... it's treacherous," she added.
"With the ground being as flat as is it is here the wind whips through pretty good," said Lowes store manager George Worrell. He says to make sure you have a snow shovel and some rock salt now, before the storm hits.
"Typically it's a lot of times after the snowstorm when the snow begins to melt," said Worrell. "You have people who need help with the water under their basement or recovering from the high winds."
And crews are already preparing before the storm hits, getting their salt and rock mix ready. We called around to our counties north of I-70 and they all tell us the amount of salt they used this year is down from their average.
Auglaize: This Year 900 Tons / Avg: 1,500 Tons
Darke: This Year 1,800 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Shelby: This Year 1,500 Tons / Avg: 3,500 Tons
Mercer: This Year 1,000 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Miami: This Year 1,000 Tons / Avg: 2,000 Tons
Logan: This Year 1,200 Tons / Avg: 1500 Tons
Darke County engineers say they didn't spend a lot of money on salt the last two winters but that money had to be spent elsewhere.
"The biggest thing is the fuel," said Shane Coby of Darke County Roadways. "A couple years ago it used to be the biggest thing that influence your budget was the salt."
Crews expect they will need to use a couple hundred more tons of salt with Tuesday's storm.
"I'm glad it's coming because we haven't had a really good snow," said Laino. "I'm from Cleveland and I'm used to a lot of snow so I feel like I'm getting cheated this year so far."
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