Even though the forecast did not meet expectations over the weekend, the St. Joseph Streets Department said it was prepared. 

Keven Schneider, Interim Superintendent of Streets for the City of St. Joseph said everything went smoothly over the weekend as crews were out pre-treating streets well ahead of the anticipated ice storm in the forecast.

Schneider said if weekend temperature had been three or four degrees colder at times, things could have been much worse. 

“I’ve been watching the news, some of the places that did get some bad ice,” Schneider said. “There’s some bad stuff out there, we were really lucky the temperatures ended up being the way they were.” 

Official numbers have not yet been compiled but Schneider estimates streets crews used around 1,000 ton of salt to pretreat roadways.