The incoming snow has people asking what constitutes a roadway emergency. So we spoke to Emergency Management Director Tom Berger to break it down.
There are three different roadway levels. Level One is a roadway advisory. That is prompted if a majority of the county's roads are snow covered. Level Two is a warning. That's when roads become dangerous to be on and roads start to become impassable. People are advised not to be on the roads. Level Three is a state of emergency which means roads are extremely dangerous and all roads and highways are impassable. The decision for what level is issued is actually planned out ahead of time.
"It's actually a committee that does the snow levels, it's the county engineer's office, our office, and the sheriff, ultimately it's the sheriff who is responsible for issuing those roadway levels," said Tom Berger, emergency management director. "And we talk, we look at the plan the county engineers have, what their crews are going to look like, what their salt levels look like, and how their plan's going to be to attack the snow."
Berger said in his tenure he has not seen a Level 3 enacted.
