Why weren't the roads pre-treated?

"The State Highway Administration did not pre-treat the roads because "all the forecasts were saying this was going to start as a rain event," said spokeswoman Kim Frum. "That would have been a huge waste of resources."

"However, crews were mobilized between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., anticipating a need to address conditions on bridges, which freeze first, she said. As a result, they were able to quickly clean up primary roads, according to Frum.

"By 4:30 a.m., most of the main lines were just wet," she said."

Just wet? Really? Any morning commuters out there want to share their experiences from this morning's "rush" hour?

I can't say which forecasters the SHA folks were listening to. But, for the record, the National Weather Service had been predicting overnight "snow and rain" for days before the flakes actually began to fall.

Granted, they always expressed it in terms of "snow or rain," or "snow and rain." On Monday they were talking about the storm being primarily a rain event, at least during the day Wednesday. But the forecast always called for at least some snow overnight. And by Tuesday afternoon this was shaping up as a significant storm. Winter Storm Watches were up for almost the entire state. The start times fell after daybreak, but wouldn't that be reason to get the roads ready?

So where were the trucks?