I drive through several cities every day in order to get to work, and therefore have a splendid vantage point of who gets plowed out first or last, working as I do for two newspapers.
Dassel gets plowed out last, and usually it takes a lot of snow before anyone thinks of plowing anything. This has always been true. I’ve risked my life to pick up my kids at daycare so that I can “get home and stay home” in the first place. It’s almost comical turning off of Highway 12 — which is plowed first and best by state crews based out of Buffalo in Wright County — to Dassel city limits, where you traverse wagon wheel ruts and risk getting stuck with a carload of scared kids.
Cokato, on the other hand, is plowed out neat as a pin, super early. Ken Bakke and his team are out there, one step ahead of every snowflake. Howard Lake is also in very fine shape by the morning time, working their buns off to make roads clear.
Wright County Road 6 (going south) is usually scary and not plowed well. I’ve seen cars in ditches on a regular basis there, over the years. This may not be considered a primary road for the plowing crews (?) and therefore, crews might be busy digging out roads with heavier traffic.
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