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(WKBN) – The cleanup from this winter storm is far from over Sunday night. Across Mahoning County, plow crews have been pushing snow for hours, trying to keep hundreds of miles of roads open as conditions continue to change.

In Mahoning County alone, more than 20 trucks are covering 500 miles of roads. As of 8 p.m. Sunday, these crews will be pulled off the roads to rest before starting again at 4 a.m. Monday.

“This has been probably the toughest challenge we’ve seen since I started in 2013,” said Mahoning County Engineer Pat Ginnetti.

WARREN — Listen to your road engineer.

That’s the advice Trumbull County Engineer David DeChristofaro has to local municipalities underestimating their salt supplies for the winter season.

“At the beginning of every season, every community has to decide how much salt that they believe they’re going to need for the season,” DeChristofaro told county commissioners at its regular meeting Thursday. “Every community is then held to that amount of salt plus or minus 10%. …

LISBON — Columbiana County Engineer Bert Dawson received recognition recently as an inductee of the Ohio Fairs Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Columbiana County Fair and fairgrounds.

That’s an event and a place near and dear to his heart, what he called one of the nice things in life.

“Fairs are the real America — the families and kids. I’ve always been part of the fair,” Dawson said.

LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - Allen County road crews have been out on the road since the snow started to fly.

The county has 353 miles of roads to maintain, and it felt like a lot more the past 30-plus hours. Sunday saw 15 trucks out and crews working 12-hour shifts. There was never a point where no trucks were on the roads. County officials say they did dodge a bullet on major drifting because the wind died down but that won't be the case overnight Monday and into Tuesday.

ONTARIO — Tom Harvey took his foot off the gas and let the truck slow to a gentle pace as he approached a dip in Walker Lake Road just outside Ontario city limits.

The stretch would barely be worthy of the term ‘hill’ under normal circumstances, but Harvey knew better than to take chances during a winter storm. 

His right hand hovered over the console with all the snow plow’s controls, his fingers grazed the joystick that moved the plow up, down, left and right.