No plowing for Green Bay With his dog Shadow sporting a Santa hat, Art Birkett walks through the Astor neighborhood in Green Bay Wednesday (photo by H. Marc Larson). 16 city trucks hit the streets with salt By Sarah Riley News-Chronicle City of Green Bay plow trucks limited their activity to salting the streets Wednesday as the city experienced much less snow than was predicted Tuesday evening. The city's 16 trucks were on the streets during the storm Wednesday, but the plows stayed in the air as the trucks spread salt on the main streets before and while the inch of snow fell on the ground. "Fortunately for us, the (amount) of snow was much less than people were projecting," said Carl Weber, city public works director. No major accidents were reported as of Wednesday evening, said Green Bay Police Lt. John Laux. A few fender-benders were seen throughout the day, but Laux said there were surprisingly few considering the weather and road conditions. Wednesday was the third snow event for Green Bay, the other two times the trucks went out were Nov. 24 and 28. Weber said the city was watching the weather predictions and it receives updates and warnings from a weather service. Crews began changing trucks from their leaf-gathering capacity to salting and plowing capability as snow predictions came in. "We had to pull back on most of the leaf pickup to preparation, in anticipation for the storm," Weber said. If the city knows a storm is coming, it will spread salt on arterial roads before and during snowfall. If snow accumulates to 2 inches, which it did not on Wednesday, the city will begin to plow when the storm lets up. Weber said he didn't expect to have to work on the streets for the rest of the week because of the predictions of sunnier weather. The city has a custodian and supervisor on call throughout the year. When certain spots in the city become icy - like bridges - the city can send out one truck or up to 16 to take care of the trouble spots. "We have pople on call 24/7, year-round, for emergencies," Weber said. All storms are different, he said, so the crews have to adjust as they go. This time, the city had time to prepare for the big snowfall that was supposed to happen, but all they had to do was spread salt. "Every snow storm is a little different and you simply have to adjust," Weber said.