TRUMBULL COUNTY, OH - After non stop plowing overnight in Champion Township, crews headed back out Monday for more clean up. 

“It went pretty busy. Just kept driving around in circles, just kept plowing them off, plowing them off, plowing them off,” Shawn Davis, Champion Township’s Working Foreman said about the weekend storm efforts for the roads. 

After not salting all night because of how often blades would pass by, trucks started dumping the first grains Monday. 

“If you put salt down it’s cold and really wouldn’t do anything and you’d plow it right back off,” Davis said. “This morning we went out and plowed everything off, put the salt down in our parking lot. We only salted it once and it melted off well.”

Main roads in the City of Warren were mostly cleared around lunchtime as city crews turned their attention to the side streets with a lot of compact snow that was making for a difficult drive to the store for some essentials.

County crews focused on widening the streets and salting intersections and hills where accidents can be at the biggest risk. 

“A lot of the roads were narrow just because we wanted to keep them open and passable so now they're going to be pushing back to the edge of the pavement and trying to get them back to the normal lane width,” Joe Cicchillo, Trumbull County’s Assistant Highway Superintendent said. 

Engineers said the teen temperatures will make it tough for the salt to work on its own but mixing in the traffic will break things up faster.

“Some of our secondary roads and some of our northern areas that don't get a lot of traffic it will be a couple of days,” Cicchillo said. “We have them down pretty low now but all that hard pack from all that snow and traffic on it, it just takes a lot longer for that salt to work.”

Most street crews are still asking drivers to stay off the roads. The City of Warren officials expect the parking ban to last through Tuesday.