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Folks embrace the wintry mix headed for SE Wisconsin
Folks embrace the wintry mix headed for SE Wisconsin
WASHINGTON COUNTY -- A wintry mix is headed for southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday evening, January 24th. As some folks spent the day bracing for it, others embraced it at Sunburst Winter Sports Park located in Kewaskum.
Sunburst Winter Sports Park
The ski hill was certainly usable Tuesday.
"There's plenty of snow to come out and to enjoy, but it's very soft," said Rob Friedl, owner.
The coming snow won't exactly change things much, because of the consistency. Although Friedl said snowfall does put people in the mood to come to the hill.
"It's wonderful. It gets everybody interested. It gets them back out again, but it's the colder temperatures that we need," said Friedl.
Rob Friedel
For the Village of Kewaskum's Department of Public Works, it was definitely all about the snow in the forecast on Tuesday.
"It may be plow and salt, whatever we need to do to have safe travels," said Dennis Opperly, Village of Kewaskum DPW working foreman.
Opperly said it takes the crew, with four trucks and one loader, about six hours to clear the streets and alleys of the Village of Kewaskum. If it's a continuous snow, the crew gets breaks where they can.
"We'll get to a point if it gets later in the evening and traffic has slowed down, we’ll take a few hours off and come back in before our winter parking ban is over and clean everything up -- before traffic gets going in the morning," said Opperly.
Back at the ski hill, the real work won't start with the snow.
The snow-making machines will crank up when the temperatures drop below 28 degrees.
Friedl said he can hardly wait.
"Absolutely. Absolutey. We can just put so much more snow down so much more quickly than Mother Nature, " said Friedl.
Of course, the kids didn't seem to mind how much snow is on the hill, as long as there is some!
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