Gene Blaum Quotations

Then you'll have pretty much an all-new smooth roadway on the course of the older bypass.

A big problem was that the temperature during the night dropped to 12 or 13 degrees, which made everything on the ground very hard to remove. We made it as good as possible. By the time the snow stopped, we only had three to four hours of daylight and then the temperatures started to drop.

The township is doing all of the design and property acquisition, and we expect to put it out for bids in December of this year. If everything gets done on schedule, we expect to start in spring of (2007) and get it finished in the summer of (2008).

The vast majority of these are what you call 'partial takes,' where you only take a strip of land from the property.

This is the final part of the highway?s preventative maintenance project. The surface was very worn and rough.

They're calling for the heaviest snows to fall overnight. But the real battle may be these high winds tomorrow blowing snow back across the roads and creating drifts.

But it was nearly impossible to have all the roads cleaned up as early as the rush hour. We couldn't get ahead of it until it started dissipating.

State crews were out by noon on Saturday, and snow was sticking on the grass by about 3 p.m.. Conditions on the roadways were good until 7 or 8 p.m., when the temperatures started to go down.