WINFIELD, Mo. — Slippery roads and cars sliding off into ditches.
Many areas saw those conditions Monday and overnight, and Winfield, Missouri, in Lincoln County, was certainly no exception.
Things were made even worse in Winfield because they barely had any salt to put down.
"It was a sheet of ice, literally," Lola Parker, who braved Winfields roads said. "If you put a glass down that's what you were looking at on the road, for real."
Another driver said she was scared.
"I debated on whether I should stop and stay where I was, if I sit on the shoulder I may get hit by someone. I was white-knuckling there and back," the driver said.
Winfield's Mayor Ryan Ruckel said roads couldn't get salt down until late Monday night.
"Our maintenance facility and our salt storage areas are all in the flood plains. So when the floodwaters came in, as most saw this last summer, it carried our salt away and went out into the waters," Ruckel said.
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When it came time to replenish their salt supplies, they decided to hold off, since they don't see harsh weather later into winter.
"We know putting out salt early can actually be a waste of tax money if it rains before it freezes we lost all that salt," Ruckel said.
But when they realized the snow was going to hit, it was too late. "We put out calls for salt and they were busy and we couldn't get a delivery for salt," he said.
Fortunately, a shipment came in for Tuesday morning. It's the luck that Winfield needed.
"We don't always win, every decision doesn't always go on the right side. We really did fight this as hard as we could," Ruckel said.
Ruckel hopes to move the city's only maintenance facility for a long term goal.
But their main goal right now is to update their emergency flood plan to prepare for any potential flooding.
