{"id":71571,"date":"2025-12-28T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71571\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:08:09","slug":"you-need-an-ice-pick-crews-clear-snow-slush-and-ice-from-berks-county-roads-in-post-storm-cleanup-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71571\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You need an ice pick&#8217;: Crews clear snow, slush, and ice from Berks County roads in post-storm cleanup | Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in Berks County experienced icy conditions after Friday night&#8217;s storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crews were out early on Saturday morning to clear off all that fell overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Snow, slush and ice made things messy for those trying to get around.<\/p>\n<p>Crews say the hardest part was the thick layer of ice that froze on the roads and sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like you need an ice pick out here. They shoulda put some salt down. It&#8217;s easy to put salt down. It melts everything down, it just becomes slush after that. But it takes awhile, it&#8217;s pretty thick,&#8221; one resident said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews say they&#8217;ll keep working to clean off the roads throughout the weekend so Monday&#8217;s commute isn&#8217;t too challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those in Berks County experienced icy conditions after Friday night&#8217;s storm.\u00a0 Crews were out early on Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-71571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news","12":"tag-reading-area","13":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71571","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=71571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}