{"id":51104,"date":"2025-12-03T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51104\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:53:37","slug":"crews-prepare-for-possible-overnight-ice-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51104\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews prepare for possible overnight ice | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The first snowstorm of the season hit fast and kept public works crews busy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spring Township Public Works Director Craig Conrad said the day started early.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think things went really well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We had 17 trucks out at 5 a.m. this morning. We had 3,000 tons of salt in stock, ready to roll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Spring Township, crews salted early, then pivoted when that late-morning burst covered everything again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We actually ended up going out with the plows, and we&#8217;re finishing up right now,&#8221; Conrad said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the real challenge may come overnight, when temperatures drop into the mid-20s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re calling for temps in the mid-20s tonight, so anything that might be icy or water running over could potentially freeze up,&#8221; Conrad said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crews will be back out around 4 a.m. Wednesday, checking trouble spots before work traffic, and school buses, hit the roads. That&#8217;s 17\u00a0trucks, 23 workers, and about 120 miles of township roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conrad said the advice for drivers stays simple: &#8220;As always, slow down, take your time, make sure there&#8217;s room between you and the person in front of you, give yourself time to react, and the main thing, take your time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The first snowstorm of the season hit fast and kept public works crews busy. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-51104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}