Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Poor Road Conditions Across Utica Area

5:55 am - I just finished the trip from New Hartford to WKTV and experienced heavy snow and poor road conditions. The plows are out but the intensity of the snow is making it difficult to keep the roads clear. Here were my observations:
  • Oneida Street (Utica) - 3 to 4 inches on the road
  • Genesee Street (Utica) - 2 to 3 inches of snow on the road
  • Walker Road (Deerfield) - 4 to 5 inches of snow on the road
  • Smith Hill Road (Deerfield) - 5 inches of snow on the road

Watch the intersections! They seem to the the biggest problem as you stop for traffic lights and stop signs. Also keep an eye for private snow plows clearing driveways. Some may back out in the road as they clear the snow from the driveway. Because of the low visibility you need to keep an eye on this.

We invite you to post your comments and observations....

29 comments:

Joycebr said...

five inches in Boonville, snowing moderately, village roads are getting plowed but I'm buried--driveway not plowed out yet!! Worried about visibility on route 12

Anonymous said...

I dont want to pay a plow guy until this storm has stopped...unless my plow guy can cut me a deal.. Is there any snow or state emergencies with no unecessary travel advisories?

Anonymous said...

Lots of snow continues here on Smith Hill. We're closing in on 7". We'll be here all morning long with updates.

Anonymous said...

Wow what a night...At this time just under 9" of snow on the ground. State Plows were out most the night and the County came in around 4 AM, I haven't seeen any town plows which makes my road a nightmare. With everything closing the plow guys may not hit the streets as hard as they would with schools etc. I have to get up and get ready to go into Dispatch. That is after the 1+ hours of snowplowing I have to do!

Anonymous said...

Just another quick note, Look at the latest Radar loop and two major things stick out to me. The areas of breakup out in the Western areas are now filling in quickly, and the very large amount of heavy precip building in PA and slowly working north and northwest. Looks to me that we are really getting ready for the Brunt of this storm!
Matt or Bill add Sherburne and I will try and keep up today from work right now 9".

Unknown said...

Here in Poland, Location North Gage Rd. 9" thus far

Anonymous said...

I cannot believe the only school still open is Canasota.. Thats crazy!
Not sure how many inches in oriskany right now but it looks like alot...

Joycebr said...

in the village of Boonville we now have six inches and snowing moderately. Temp -1*F.

Thanks WKTV Met Team for all your hard work and info.!!!

Gary said...

Looking at the radar image on Weatherunderground, there's a heavy batch of precip moving northward from the Scranton, PA area. cut an paste the following:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BGM&lat=42.53567886&lon=-75.52355957&label=Norwich%2C+NY&type=N0R&zoommode=pan&map.x=400&map.y=240¢erx=400¢ery=240&prevzoom=zoom&num=20&delay=15&scale=1&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0

Gary (Schuyler)

Anonymous said...

Crazy times ahead of us for the next 12 hours. I have 10.5 inches here in Whitesboro as of 815 this morning. It has let up some but I see lots of trouble brewing to our south.

Anonymous said...

The 6z NAM & GFS is still showing a mean average 0f 2.25total inches for this storm for our immediate area. I'll say 15:1 snow ratio for an average which means over 30" for the area. So anotherwards we are going to get BURIED!!!! There is the possibility of the heaviest precip(banding) to be over our area but it looks to be just to the east of Oneida county. I think under this swath we could be talking about 4 feet of snow.

Mike S (Port Leyden) said...

Out of this, I've come in at the low end with 6" of snow, and 27" currently on the ground.

Unknown said...

Great job guys !!
Looking at radar if I am reading it correctly the worst is yet to come . About a 12" in Holland Patent and still counting .

Anonymous said...

Route 12 from Remsen to Boonville, I would say should be closed when this bad part hits, some spots are very open and will cause blizzard conditions in no time. As of right now 10:05am its getting real slick, I can only imagine whats gonna happen when the brunt gets here.

Anonymous said...

did anybody see that herkimer county is under a blizzard warning?

Anonymous said...

This snow is very light and accumulating fast. Very difficult plowing. Running out of room, no place to pile the snow. Check out the snow amounts on the Hinckley WebCAM at http://www.leegreen.com/webcam/

Anonymous said...

State Hwy 12 from New Hartford to Waterville is closed. We have 13" now here in the Northern Chenango county area right along 12 and it is still snowing hard. The Radar looks as if the back end is already advancing. Does the WKTV crew have an idea as to if that is going to continue, or is the precip going to fill back in or remain steady???

Anonymous said...

Actually the worst of the storm has yet start. The low is still off of New Jersey, Delaware area and that heavy precipitation is starting to move a bit westward. I think the backedge is going to fill in. Right now is the lull time in the storm until about noon. Then the snow will be heavy most of the afternono

Anonymous said...

Here in Schuylers Lake we have about 15" and it is still coming down hard well the worst is still yet to come.Happy Shoveling All....

Anonymous said...

Paris Hill is getting snow at a very steady rate. Everyone is doing the best they can to keep the roads clear, however I have a 5 foot snow drift at the end of my driveway that we are trying very hard to remove. Let it Snow!

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Unknown said...

SUNY Oneonta canceled classes today for the first time since I've been attending school here. The snow is up to my knees and our cars are buried in the parking lots (seriously, you can't see the cars at all!) Other than that we enjoyed our snow day by sledding on lunch trays and mattresses. The Otsego County travel ban is definately necessary (as if we could get our cars out of the parking lots anyway!)

Anonymous said...

Here from Schuylers Lake the snow is coming down quite hard we shoveled our driveway at 11:30 and we have about another 1'5" more.kris

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