The warnings said heavy snow for Oklahoma City, but the reality was much lighter.
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The snow never accumulated on city roadways Saturday and wasn't heavy enough to affect traffic significantly, city spokeswoman Kristy Yager said.
"We feel very lucky,” Yager said.
Fifteen city crews drove emergency snow routes Saturday looking for slick spots, she said. But workers didn't spread much salt.
"They are not putting salt down if the area is not icing up,” Yager said. "We don't want to waste salt.”
An Oklahoma City police spokesman said traffic moved smoothly in most areas. Five injury accidents on city streets were reported Saturday, which is typical for a Saturday.
Bridges and overpasses were the city's biggest concern.
Two more city crews remained on fallen tree limb duty.
City street crews have worked 12-hour shifts salting streets and picking up tree limbs since the ice started falling last weekend, Yager said.
"We hope we can end the 12-hour shifts,” she said. "Our crews really need to get home. They've done an outstanding job.”
Contributing: Staff Writers Johnny Johnson, Michael McNutt and Brian Sargent
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Yet again the weathermen told us that we were going to get slammed with snow and hyped this up all week."The calm before the storm" what a bunch of bull. I have come to distrust the weathermen when it comes to snow predictions. I think Gary should apoligize to the state for the way this was handled.
Did Gary apologize to people for lying and having them spend their hard-earned money on supplies they didn't need? Probably not...just another blown forecast.
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