After amassing more than 13 inches of snow between the night of Feb. 8 and the end of Sunday, Winnetka public works crews were still on the job Monday afternoon, Assistant Public Works Director Jim Bernahl said.
Crews were still rotating on 12-hour shifts at that point, doing cleanup of the village’s downtown area, Bernahl said, “but everything’s gone well.”
Bernahl estimated that Winnetka spread a couple of hundred tons of salt on streets and sidewalks by the time the snowfall ended.
“We did some clearing up on Saturday night, and then got hit with the second round of snow, so we’re still fine-tuning, but all the roads and sidewalks have been cleared. We made sure about the sidewalks before school starting today,” he said.
He said the village got most of its snow, 8 inches worth, overnight Feb. 8 and Friday, a small amount on Saturday, then another 5 inches on Sunday. That brought the amount of snow Winnetkans have weathered to roughly 26 inches so far in 2018, he said.
Interim Winnetka Police Chief Marc Hornstein said Monday that his department dealt with few weather-related events between Feb. 8 and Sunday: “It certainly helped that the schools were closed Friday.”
New Trier High School and all New Trier township public elementary schools closed for the day Friday, as were most nearby private and parochial schools, including Loyola Academy and Regina Dominican High School, according to their websites.
Winnetka officers dealt with two snow-related traffic incidents, Hornstein said, one on Thursday and one Saturday. Both were property damage incidents with no injuries, he said
“All things considered, for a storm, we came out pretty well,” he said.
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