For many Americans, Thanksgiving evening consists of laying on the couch and waiting for the sleepy effect from the tryptophan in our turkey dinners to wear off. But for Leelanau County Road Commission drivers, Thanksgiving Day saw the first night shift in four “all call” days as they fought to keep our roads from being buried in snow.
The Traverse City area received about two feet of seasonal snowfall by the end of Thanksgiving weekend, according to the National Weather Service. Winter finally came.
Road Commission crews rose to the challenge over the holiday weekend. For “all call” events like these, the road commission has almost everyone on the clock, including 31 drivers across their 20 snowplows. By Dec. 3, they had plowed nearly 10,000 miles of road.
