The Geary County Commission was pleased with the work down over the past couple days to clean up from the ice storm that hit this past weekend.

Chairman Ben Bennett explained crews had been out working around the clock since Saturday clearing and treating roads.

“They did call out the road graders Sunday to scrape the ice off of the gravel roads, and that was pretty tricky,” said Bennett.

He added that crews did have all of the county roads and county right of ways cleared of any tree limbs and debris by Sunday night.

Commissioner Florence Whitebread was also pleased with the county’s response.

“I thought the county handled all of our ice storm problems really well. I saw the sheriff’s car out on patrol in our area several times, and I think that’s good because if people have car trouble sometimes you need that help, especially with that kind of ice,” said Whitebread.

She went on to say that the county did get lucky, because it could have been far worse.

“We were very fortunate not to have the high winds, and it didn’t get as cold as prior ice storms had been. So to me this wasn’t a bad storm, it was one we had to take care of, but not bad like we’ve had in the past.”

The county has opened it’s burn pit to allow people to drop off tree limbs. It will remain open throughout the week, and possibly weekend. Depending on the traffic throughout the week the county will make the decision whether to open the burn pit this weekend later this week.