Overland Park has plowed half of its residential streets, plans to finish by Wednesday

Overland Park’s snow crews have plowed and treated all of the city’s thoroughfares and collector streets, and more than half of the neighborhood streets as of midday Tuesday.

Meg Ralph, the city’s director of strategic communications, said in an email that snow crews will work throughout the day and night to get the rest of the neighborhood streets plowed by Wednesday morning.

“The City’s contractors are returning to neighborhoods to assist with plowing cul-de-sacs and should have them done on a similar timeframe,” Ralph said in the email. “We use contractors with smaller trucks to complete these areas where the larger plows cannot easily navigate the street.”

Overland Park saw 11 inches of snow fall after a record-breaking snowstorm pummeled the Kansas City metro. The city deployed crews to salt the main thoroughfares ahead of the storm’s initial rainfall on Saturday, which shifted into snow overnight. Drivers worked 12-hour shifts, day and night, to plow more than 2,200 lane miles of streets and 2,000 cul-de-sacs.

It’s the first time the city’s snow crews have been fully staffed in recent years, bouncing back from worker shortages.

The city closed several of its facilities on Monday due to the weather, with court and City Hall resuming normal business hours Tuesday. Blue Valley School District closed its sites both Monday and Tuesday due to the snow and severe cold.

Low temperatures are predicted to continue this week, with most days staying in the teens and the evenings dropping to single digits. Ralph said that the city is keeping its eye on the weather for more snow later in the week, with the National Weather Service predicting a slight chance of snow on Thursday night.

Track Overland Park’s plowing progress and get updates at https://rastrac.net/opkspub/.

This story was originally published January 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM.