With so many lane miles and roads to clear, snow fighters simply cannot spend too much time on one street, especially during a storm or in the first 12 hours after the end of the storm. Remember, every minute a driver spends on your street is a minute he/she is not spending clearing an area on someone else’s street. O’Fallon snow operations team has established 14 routes to ensure that drivers can get to every street in the City as quickly as possible. During the storm, crews will constantly cycle through their assigned routes to try and maintain at least one clear path (room for one car width) on the streets. After the storm, plows will first establish the clear path on all their assigned streets. Again, the goal for this part is to have a clear path on all residential streets within 12 hours of the conclusion of the storm. Only after a “clear path” is established on all streets will drivers begin the process of widening this clear path to accommodate two-way traffic. From that point on, drivers will continue to repeat their routes and with each pass they will widen the path to get the pavement cleared close to the curbs on both sides of the street It may be necessary for the plows to come down your street many times until the job is done. Once two lanes have been established on all subdivision streets, drivers will go into a clean-up phase where they will go around and improve areas that were not done well earlier. At this point they will also be cleaning up intersections and cul-de-sacs.