GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 11, 2023) – It seems as if winter is making up for lost time along the Lakeshore and across much of the state.
Following several inches of heavy, wet snow that fell from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service has placed nearly all of the Lower Peninsula under a 24-hour-long winter storm watch, beginning around midday on Friday. Ten to 14 inches of snow are forecasted, with wind gusts between 20 to 40 miles per hour hampering visibility.
It has been a mild winter season thus far, but road maintenance experts such as Alex Doty with the Ottawa County Road Commission say that averages of 20,000 to 25,000 tons of “salt,” along with 14,000 to 18,000 tons of sand, that are the normfor a typical year could be put down by the time everything is said and done this spring.
Doty adds that the annual cost of winter road maintenance can “easily” add up to $3.7 million, depending on weather conditions.
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