Winter doesn’t arrive officially for another five weeks, and meteorologists agree the recent arctic blast that brought more than 2 inches of snow and plummeting temperatures to the area was tied to a freak occurrence — Typhoon Nuri in the North Pacific.
In any event, it gave local road crews an early start on wintry weather responses.
City, county and state road crews were out in response to the Sunday snow storm that blanketed much of the state.
Iola street and alley workers spread 11 truckloads of ice melt along various streets…
Winter comes early, road crews prepared
