FAIRMONT — Martin County commissioners on Tuesday heard from County Engineer Kevin Peyman, who provided an update following the latest round of winter weather over the weekend.

“We didn’t work much Saturday, they tried but they just couldn’t see so we ended up pulling the trucks pretty early,” he said. “We did go out for pretty much a full day Sunday, a lot of the guys were out until about 4:30 p.m. It’s pretty rare that we work a full day on Sunday, but we felt it was important since the roads had been closed and were so bad.”

Commissioner Dan Schmidtke said he was impressed with how the snow cleanup was handled over the weekend.

“I think the guys did a good job this weekend,” he said. “I was very glad to hear that the roads were closed. That’s what should be done, and it should be done more often than it happens.”

“Back when they first started closing the interstate with barricades, people started using our roads instead,” Peyman said. “So we’ve gone to where once the roads are officially closed, we try to barricade some of the main roads in and out of town to keep people in as much as we can.”

Peyman noted that while safety is the primary issue in such matters, stuck vehicles make plowing much more difficult in the days following bad weather.

Turning to another matter, Peyman said the late snowfall has also affected minor repairs and work schedules for the summer.

“This is going to make for an interesting summer, normally all of or crack filling and patching is done by this point,” he said. “It’s going to throw off our whole summer schedule and what we’re doing when, but we’ll get done what we can. There may be some things that we normally do that we’re just not going to have time for this year because we’re getting such a late start.

“We usually have a small window for crack filling. If we skip spring, I don’t know what it’s going to our crack filling, because once it gets warm those cracks start closing up and you just can’t get enough material in there. It’s a rubberized material and they need to be open far enough to get it in there, so we’ll do the best we can but we’ll just have to see what the weather does and it is going to change our whole schedule this year.”