While ODOT, Allen County and the City of Lima have the public roads taken care of with plows, there’s still plenty of private plowers out there that put in a good day's work from the snow storm. 

The Ohio Department of Transportation asking drivers to be mindful of their workers out on the roads. ODOT District 1 announced that an employee was in a work truck that had been struck by another vehicle in a work zone near Findlay last week.

A representative from the Ohio Department of Transportation met with members of Keep Allen County Beautiful to discuss ODOT's plans on pollution and pollinators. Joel Hunt with ODOT paid a visit to Lima Wednesday afternoon as part of their meetings with local partners to talk about how to increase the population of pollinators like butterflies and bees. Hunt also talked about the amount of time and resources that are spent with pollution, a problem that he says is a persistent issue throughout the state.

The first major snow of the winter hit our area this week and plows and salt trucks were out in full force.

When winter weather is about to hit, it is all hands on deck at the ODOT garage in Allen county, and they make sure they plan ahead.

"We'll be plowing, treating, and we have liquid in all of our trucks so they'll be spraying brine along with the salt," said Brian Rader, Transportation Manager for ODOT District 1. "We started yesterday going through the trucks and then we brought our first crew in at 7 this morning and they finished going through the trucks, getting them loaded, and then it started snowing finally."

Once the snow starts falling, the trucks hit the state roads clearing snow and treating the pavement but usually in plowing conditions it takes time to see the effects.