January, 15, 2024 @ 3:30 pm
Being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a National Holiday, traffic throughout the county today was thankfully much lighter than normal. This fact undoubtedly helped keep major traffic incidents from occurring. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a great day to be out on the roads, and if you can avoid travel again today, TCSO would recommend that. We have less Deputies patrolling today, than we did over the weekend. Avoiding travel just minimizes potential incidents that they must respond to.
Current road conditions are varying from dry pavement to a solid sheet of ice – sometimes only feet apart, not miles. Downtown Tillamook has whole swathes of streets still covered in thick ice, and many sidewalks aren’t any better. On Fourth Street, approaching Safeway, the sidewalk and pavement are a skating rink, with vehicles and people struggling to maintain control.
Businesses are spreading deicer, but with temperatures hovering around 30 degrees tonight, much of what has melted, might just freeze again. So, we’ll say it again: if possible, please stay home and off the roadways. And as always, please check on those neighbors that might need some assistance.
With rising temperatures tomorrow and rain predicted, much of these issues could resolve themselves.
Third Street, near the Elks and Safeway
