Here's How City Manager & Mayor Q Triumphed Over Snowpocalypse?!?

We put question marks on this post title because some residents are still complaining about KCMO performance . . . Again, we gave the city hall team a modest B+ for their efforts whilst other media outlets are offering far more outlandish praise. 

Accordingly . . . Here's the celebratory prog blog write-up and a bit of "insight" into the snow & ice removal process that mostly serves to slam MoDOT . . . Check-it:

Cars can kick up the pretreatment, and if there’s any liquid rain before the freezing rain and snow, the pretreatment can wash away. That’s thousands of tons of snow melt and brine flushed down the storm drain before it can do its job.

That’s why MoDOT chose not to pretreat its 34,000 lane miles across the state as aggressively as Kansas City did. The department did salt and brine the roads the day of the storm, but not a day and half in advance like Kansas City.

“Maybe a storm is coming in, and it’s rain at first and then it changes to snow,” said Matt Killion, MoDOT’s assistant district engineer in Kansas City. “If you pretreat, the rain is going to wash away your treatment before it can do any good. So it’s a waste of material to basically treat ahead in that type of situation.”

(KCMO City Manager Brian) Platt is glad that City Hall acted aggressively for this storm.

“We knew the temperatures were going to be cold, and we knew that any kind of precipitation would allow for some kind of icy condition,” he said. “Why risk it? We didn’t risk it, and it paid off for us.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Historic winter storm forces City Hall, MoDOT to make tough calls on clearing Kansas City roads

As a blizzard blanketed snow across the metro, Kansas City Hall and MoDOT worked around the clock to clear the icy roads. They may have to do it again soon.