An official with KDOT said even with below freezing temperatures, the materials crews put on the roads should still work including what's left over from the last storm.
MassDOT is asking everyone if you can stay off the roads statewide on Sunday so they can clear those roads so businesses and schools can reopen on Monday morning.
we ll see crews loading up plows and heading out on the street because they re expecting to clear potentially 1 to 2 inches of snow every single hour, up to 8 inches of snow in a lot of parts of the state. and, look, just to give you a sense of the resources they have available, the pennsylvania department of transportation alone will have more than 2,000 of these plows spread out across the state, plowing interstates and major roads, which speaks to the many thousand more on the local and state level that will be out across the region as we see this first major snowfall of the year. look, a lot of preparation went into this storm. it s not just today. they ve been pretreating roads here across pennsylvania. what you see behind me, that s their salt dome. they have hundreds of thousands of tons of this stuff spread across the state. it gets mixed into a salt brine. that s what those tanks are behind me. these trucks have been out, they were treating roads yesterday. they re trying to p