St. Joseph prepares for season's first snowfall

The area could see up to 2 inches of snow Sunday night into Monday morning.

Thank you, the early preview of winter has sent the st.

Joseph streets department into action, along with drivers likely preparing for a tougher commute to work tomorrow, we talked to the streets department superintendent earlier as well as store clerks to see how everyone's preparing.

<<ron johnson reportingafter we saw temperatures in the mid 80's late last week, st.

Joseph and all of northwest missouri is prepping for the first snowfall of the season.

We didn't really expect it to get as bad as its sounding now.

Sunday evening, the city streets department's superintendent making the last minute change to send salt trucks out.

With the rain they're forecasting before the snow, we really can't do much pretreating because it'll just wash it off.

We're going to go out and run emergency routes first thing in the morning and hopefully that'll be it and while city officials are preparing so too are residents, at ace hardware staff say they're well stocked on winter items just in time for the occasional october surprisewe're usually set up by the middle of october, really in my mind anytime after the middle of october you get something.they say customers also have already been stocking up.

So far, we've seen people coming in, we've sold a few shovels, and we've sold ice melt to keep your sidewalks and driveways clean.

Since this is our first snow fall, a slightly more challenging commute to work monday morning is likely.

City streets crews share this advice to drivers heading out you'll see us coming they're big bright yellow trucks, and please just give us as wide a birth as you can we'll try to get out of your way as fast as we can, we're just trying to get some salt down so everybody can get around a little easier.>> phase i of the city's emergency snow ordinance is in effect.

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