ROAD CONDITIONS: CAUTION!

Noon time 1-15-14  end of Staymon Road

UPDATE 1:30pm:  PLEASE STAY OFF APPLE CREEK ROADS AT THIS TIME.  Road treatment/salting/plowing will take place ROUGHLY at 5pm, but understand it takes a while for chemicals to do their thing.  The snow has picked back up nicely, so treating at this time would be folly.  Hoping that the late afternoon treatment will provide the best bang for the buck.  Reports say several cars are stranded and on the side of the road, making travel all the more dangerous.  PLEASE refrain from travel the rest of today if at all possible.
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UPDATE @ 7:05PM - From Keith Patton, President of ACHOA

While the snow was being plowed today, an Apple Creek resident asked the contractor to perform services in excess of those ordered by the ACAHA Board of Directors. This person did not volunteer to pay for these services, which will end up being part of the ACAHA bill. The contractor has been instructed that in the future, any services not specifically requested by the ACAHA Board of Directors are to be paid for by the individual requesting them.

Keith Patton

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I just headed out at 930a with roads already snow covered except for lowest part of AC Road.  28 degrees.  Ran errands for an hour and came back up.  Easily over an inch now on road above Moskos blue roof house, and mostly snow covered lower.  I have an Envoy which has both AWD and 4WD, and 4WD worked better for me as slipping was commonplace.  My vehicle is 2.5 tons with very good tires, and I did crawl on up to Staymon and up to the end.  Could not negotiate my ridiculously steep driveway, so will need to go plow and  treat after posting this.

PHONE CALL: Linda Hughes called just now and just went down in 4WD from Staymon and said going down it's icy and very slippery on the steeper sections, especially around the blue roof house down to the next big bend.

My models went into this event saying 1-2" with the 1am model runs, and we are well on our way to that, maybe more if this keeps up.  Biggest problem I have is that the moisture layer is largely under the radar beams pointing over the mountains, so I can only go by other data and interpolate.  Our advisory is in place to midnight, so I assume snow showers will continue through supper time at least.

Use extreme caution traveling Apple Creek.

Bob