City Preparing for Winter Weather

City trucks are out brining roads in East Ridge in preparation for a winter weather event.

Officials said Friday that the trucks are first doing hilly roads and will then proceed to flatter terrain.

City Manager Scott Miller said that city trucks are waiting for “the first snowflake to fall” and then will begin spreading sand and salt on major roadways to facilitate motorists.

The local forecast is calling for a 20 percent chance of snow in our immediate area for Friday. Temperatures tonight are expected to reach the low 20s and are expected to take a plunge into the teens on Saturday and Sunday.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.