Dayton’s 41 snow trucks to hit city streets ‘around the clock’

The crews will continue to work until a shift change at 10 p.m. Drivers will work through 7 a.m. Sunday.

“We’ll be working around the clock,” Ritchie said.

PHOTOS: Snowstorm covers region

City crews will apply salt to help prevent the snow-covered and wet roadways from icing over, and they will plow the streets when the snow gets thick enough, Ritchie said.

The city has been plowing major thoroughfares like Main Street and highways like U.S. 35 and U.S. 4, and it plows residential streets if the accumulation reaches 4 inches, Ritchie said.

The city of Dayton had only used less than 300 tons of salt before this weather event, officials said. In the 2017-2018 winter season, the city used 11,000 tons of salt.

TRENDING: Snow totals beginning to pile up as storm moves through

A winter storm warning has been issued until 7 a.m. Sunday for Darke, Fayette, Greene, Montgomery and Preble, Wayne County in Indiana. Butler, Clinton, Warren and Randolph (Indiana) counties.