I am still completely amazed that sleet/ice that last fell on Sunday has completely incapacitated this 600+ square mile metro area to the extent that school has yet to resume, is not planned to resume tomorrow, and quite likely won't resume on Friday, all due to non-plowed roads. Highways are good. SOME major roads are improving, but some are actually getting worse because of re-freezing.
However, I was shocked and amazed to see my little OKC suburb take (late but) decisive action by bringing out a few construction vehicles and also giving them police escorts to (finally) start clearing what were otherwise terrible streets (even the major ones).
As we are straddled by OKC on one side and Midwest City on the other, I suspect what happened was someone (of influence) noticed (and complained) that a particularly major road was reasonably clear in OKC, got treacherously nasty in Del City, and then strangely became mostly fine again in MWC.
In all my years as a DC resident, I don't recall them ever doing more than sprinkling scant amounts of magic fairy dust (okay, sand) upon one or two major-to-everyone-else roadways with crossed fingers. So tonight's traffic blockage (while meant well, their timing was poor -- the tail end of rush hour) was actually overlookable given the rarity of the event.
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