SNOW: Snow Plough

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In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, it snows a lot - several hundred inches a year. Snow can stop traffic, even on train tracks. And back when they mined copper, they had no time for that nonsense. So one mining company got a Russell snow plow - this monster Dean Enter gets behind the wheel of a snowplow in the earliest and toughest road conditions on the day, but he enjoys the challenge. A Nicollet County Public Works Highway Maintenance Supervisor, Enter has driven a snowplow for 27 years, so he’s faced a Subcontractors who plow the snow in several suburbs are on strike. They said the management company that hired them has not paid them this season. The subcontractors are not in a union, but say they are united in this cause. After working all winter to Mike Danforth, an attorney who represents eight subcontractors, said KCG Management and Snow Plow Men Inc. owner Mark Krog owes more than $200,000 for work completed since November. “They're out all this money that they've already had to pay,” Danforth As snow continues to fall early Friday, the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation has deployed 200 snow plows and salt trucks to work to keep main streets clear. The trucks will focus on arterial streets, Lake Shore Drive, hills, bridge decks It’s sunny, warm and snow hasn’t fallen in days. However, Orangeville’s sidewalk snow plows are driving around the municipality. While many residents are left scratching theirs heads as to why the plows are operating, town staff and council insist it .

CHICAGO (STMW) – Authorities are seeking the public’s help in the search for a snow plow that was stolen earlier this month in west suburban Oswego. The snow plow was stolen from the 1600 block of Route 25 in unincorporated Oswego sometime between The 25 deaths reported by the state included pedestrians struck by snow plows, fatal falls involving people attempting to clear snow from roofs and heart attacks from shoveling snow. Additionally, hospitals reported treating more than 1,500 people for Isn’t it nice not to hear the constant scraping sounds of snowplows as they clear the streets after our never-ending storms? The sun is slowly melting all evidence of our winter, bringing back the spring birds with their joyful songs, and also bringing “We had a number of people who died after being hit by snow plows or by other vehicles on snow covered roads,” said Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency Executive Director Kurt Schwartz. State Department of Public Health records show an additional .