Jingchu Network (Hubei ** Network) News (Reporter Zhao Xiulin, Duan Han, Correspondent Xiang Dongli) "There is snow and fog on the whole line of the Xuanhe Section, please assemble all the commandos quickly!.""On the evening of December 15, the territory of Enshi Prefecture continued to cool down sharply, and the expressway under the jurisdiction of Hubei Jiaotou Hubei West Operating Company successively ushered in the first snowfall this winter. The operating company in western Hubei responded quickly, launched the emergency response plan for low temperature ice and snow weather as soon as possible, and the five inspection offices under its jurisdiction were ready to go, immediately entered the "anti-war" mode, and fired the "first shot" of snow removal and anti-skid in the winter of 2023.
The current bridge deck temperature is minus 2. At 18:32 on the 15th, at the Majiatang Bridge of Xuanhe Expressway at an altitude of nearly 1,200 meters, the snowflakes were slanted down with the rain, and Hu Yang, the inspector of the first inspection office of the Western Hubei Operating Company, was carefully checking the temperature of the bridge deck. Hu Yang introduced that the thermometer is deployed in 10 key monitoring areas of the Xuanhe Expressway, which is specially used to monitor temperature changes and facilitate preventive measures in advance.
The inspector of the western Hubei Expressway checks the temperature of the bridge deck.
At the same time, in the Hefeng work area of Xuanhe Expressway, 20 tons of snow melting agent are being loaded one after another, and the snow-white snow melting agent is transmitted to the carriage with the roar of the machine on site. "A car can probably hold about 10 tons, according to the current temperature, only Xuanhe Expressway 47A distance of 69 kilometres required 20 tonnes of snow melting agent to be spread. Xiang Jie, a maintenance worker in the Hefeng work area, said.
Maintenance workers load snow melting agents.
As night falls, the temperature continues to drop and the amount of snow gradually increases. At 21:30 on the 15th, the maintenance workers began to spread the key monitoring sections to prevent the road from icing. The inspectors follow the spreading operation vehicle throughout the whole process and direct the orderly passage of social vehicles to prevent safety accidents.
As of 8 o'clock on December 16, a total of 16 emergency inspection vehicles, 17 spreaders, and 153 tons of snow melting agent were dispatched to 6 high-speed 550-kilometer sections under the jurisdiction of the operating company in western Hubei Province.