SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Just in time for our first big winter event this morning, Bill Zortman of It's Your Business sat down with Galynn Huber, the City of Sioux Falls snowplow general.
For the first snow event of the season, Huber reminded citizens that the City has a carefully worked out plan for plowing the streets.
"Remember, we're just on the emergency snow routes (first), which is only about one-third of the streets in the City of Sioux Fall," Huber said. "There are all the residential streets. Once you leave an emergency snow route, you have to be careful with this snow because this snow is going to be wet."
So that means don't panic. It's a logical system.
"That means you should be just blocks from a secondary snow route, then it should go smoothly to the emergency snow route," Huber said. "Then from the emergency route, it should be good to wherever you're going within the City of Sioux Falls."
And if a big storm does hit this month? Huber has the budget to handle it. November was nice and that's when the City usually gets its first big snow storm.
"That money is basically sitting on the shelf there," Huber said. "If we need to use it, we'll use it."
The City's budget--and Huber's snow removal budget--begins again in January.