Weather Alerts Winter When a snow event occurs, the City of follows the Snow Emergency Operations Level system as determined by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. The Snow Emergency Levels are: Mark Mallory, Mayor Information Level 1 - Snow Alert Roadways are hazardous Council Members with blowing and drifting snow. Laure Quinlivan Level 2 - Snow Advisory Chris Seelbach Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting P.G. Sittenfeld snow. Only those who feel it is necessary to Christopher Smitherman drive should be out on Cecil Thomas the roadways. Contact Charlie Winburn your employer to see if Wendell Young you should report to work. Level 3-Snow Emergency Milton Dohoney, Jr. All municipal, township, City Manager county and state road- ways are closed to non- www.cincinnati-oh.gov emergency personnel. No one should be out twitter.com/cincinnatisnow during these conditions unless it is absolutely Snow Hotline necessary to travel. Those 513 591 SNOW traveling on the roadways 513 591 7669 may subject themselves to arrest.

Parking Restrictions When the City of Cincinnati issues a Snow

Parking Restriction, parking is prohibited PUBLIC SERVICES on those City streets designated as snow emergency routes. All citizens are 513 591 6000 3300 Colerain Avenue 513 591 6028 TTY possible. Cincinnati, 45225 513 591 6027 FAX From Winter Road the Director Driving Tips Treatment Procedures

Dear Community Member: Tips Before You Drive Logistics Before and during Winter Weather events, Keeps your vehicle’s gas tank at least half The City of Cincinnati places a high crews and equipment are centrally full at all times. priority on keeping our street network dispatched from the four district salt domes safe and usable during the winter season Make sure windshield fluid is full. to community routes, hills, bridges, and and needs your assistance to ensure that important public facilities. Pickup trucks, this occurs. Your attention to the Winterize your car by fully charging the dump trucks and specialty equipment are all enclosed winter driving tips and keeping battery and checking tire air pressure. utilized to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. the sidewalks clear of snow and ice can Use deicer or heat your key with a match help enhance safely for our citizens and or lighter to open frozen locks. DO NOT Operations and Technology the visitors to our communities. use water, even if it is hot. Each winter weather event is different. Media, weather services, and ground temperature City crews treat streets in an systematic Keep emergency driving supplies such as sensors are closely monitored and strategies fashion giving priority to more heavily ice scrapers, snow brushes, blankets, developed to battle evolving road conditions. traveled roadways, steep hills, bridges shovels, jumper cables, flares, sand, extra that freeze sooner than the rest of the clothing, deicer, matches, candles, flash- Anti-icing is our proactive operation in which roadways, main access routes to hospitals lights, cell phone, water and non- efforts are focused on pre-treating roadways and schools, and transit routes. Citizens perishable food in your vehicle. and preventing precipitation form forming should expect to see trucks treating ice on the roadways. Deicing is our reactive streets as early as a few hours before it Listen to weather reports before heading operation in which efforts shift to cutting starts to snow,and most streets should be out. through and removing ice from roadways. treated 24 hours after the snow ends. Throughout the course of a winter weather event, efforts may be focused on one or both We are working with area travelers, of these efforts, and that focus often changes employers, and operational partners to hour by hour. help clear the roads of snow. Combined Tips While on the Road with your patience and attention to the Granular salt may be used alone or dissolved winter driving tips, we will be able to Remember bridges and ramps freeze in water to form a slurry that dries to form a handle whatever mother nature has to before roads. protective layer on pavement. Additives such offer. as Geomelt (Beet Juice) may be added to Salt treatment is enhanced by friction brine to make it more effective at lower Remember when it snows, the Department that comes from tires, which explains why temperatures. Plowing is particularly effective of Public Services is committed to provide heavier traveled streets tend to clear when removing large amounts of snow from service excellence in snow removal! faster after salt is applied. the roadways. If your vehicle gets stuck, ease or “rock” Communication out of spaces. Spinning the tires only digs Throughout the course of a winter weather a car deeper in the snow. If your vehicle Sincerely, event, the City publishes valuable road won’t budge after rocking it, try to seek condition updates in the form of media Andrew B. Glenn, Jr. help or call for assistance. releases. These releases are sent to area media Director of Public Services Keep a safe distance of 50 feet from outlets and are also published on the City snow removal equipment and the car in website at www.cincinnati-oh.gov. Heavier front of you. It takes longer to stop on winter storms that occur during rush hour can wet or icy roads. have a dramatic impact on your commute because the snow treating trucks are also When skidding, steer your vehicle in the delayed. When this happens, the City directly direction you want to go -- DO NOT slam notifies employers and schools of a potential on the breaks. rush hour complication along with a request SLOW DOWN! that consideration be given to voluntarily releasing employees and students early.