State crews were out by noon on Saturday, and snow was sticking on the grass by about 3 p.m.. Conditions on the roadways were good until 7 or 8 p.m., when the temperatures started to go down.

But it was nearly impossible to have all the roads cleaned up as early as the rush hour. We couldn't get ahead of it until it started dissipating.

The township is doing all of the design and property acquisition, and we expect to put it out for bids in December of this year. If everything gets done on schedule, we expect to start in spring of (2007) and get it finished in the summer of (2008).

It's in final design phase right now.

What's the hardest part is the intensity. We had snow coming out two to three inches an hour. As fast as we can plow, the wind is putting the snow right back on the roads. [Monday's] conditions will depend on how much wind we get. Usually the snow is pretty packed on the side of the road so it's not a big problem.

This is the final part of the highway?s preventative maintenance project. The surface was very worn and rough.

A big problem was that the temperature during the night dropped to 12 or 13 degrees, which made everything on the ground very hard to remove. We made it as good as possible. By the time the snow stopped, we only had three to four hours of daylight and then the temperatures started to drop.

The vast majority of these are what you call 'partial takes,' where you only take a strip of land from the property.

They're calling for the heaviest snows to fall overnight. But the real battle may be these high winds tomorrow blowing snow back across the roads and creating drifts.