DAYTON -- With just one week to go before April the snow is still coming down hard. When it's all said and done, this March could be one of the five worst in Dayton's history when it comes to snowfall.
Two years ago, we saw 27 inches of snow. Last year, just 9 inches and this year we are up to 35 inches.
Some people, like Martha Meikle's family love a heavy snowfall in the last week of March, "For our family it's like a gift," she said.
However most drivers and clean-up crews are counting down the days before the Spring temperatures.
"Your pretty tired afterwards, the crews have a rough time," said Dayton street maintenance manager Jim Brinegar. "Getting out there on the roads is stressful."
With heavy snowfall, Dayton Street Maintenance workers get little sleep.
"We have 16 hours on 8 off and 16 on," said Brinegar. "Our crews have been reduced over the years and we aren't able to staff two crews."
But even with snowfall coming this late in the season, this winter has actually been pretty average.
"We spend a total of about $400,000-500,000 on both overtime and salt usage," said Montgomery County auditor Paul Gruner.
We called around to Miami, Greene Clark and Montgomery County and they all said today's snow brought them to the their seasonal budget.
Darke County's engineer estimates they may actually exceed the budget this winter, but they'll be the only local county to do so.
So while it may feel like this is a long winter and taxpayers have to fund more clean up, Martha Meikle says this is nothing.
"When we were kids, I remember one year my grandma had to tunnel out from her front door and that was the coolest thing ever and that was in Ohio and that wasn't that long ago," said Meikle. "I feel like my kids are being cheated out of winter because winters in Ohio lately haven't been very good."
County engineers say they saved almost half their budget with last years mild winter. So obviously they can use some of the funds they saved toward this years budget.
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Two years ago, we saw 27 inches of snow. Last year, just 9 inches and this year we are up to 35 inches.
Some people, like Martha Meikle's family love a heavy snowfall in the last week of March, "For our family it's like a gift," she said.
However most drivers and clean-up crews are counting down the days before the Spring temperatures.
"Your pretty tired afterwards, the crews have a rough time," said Dayton street maintenance manager Jim Brinegar. "Getting out there on the roads is stressful."
With heavy snowfall, Dayton Street Maintenance workers get little sleep.
"We have 16 hours on 8 off and 16 on," said Brinegar. "Our crews have been reduced over the years and we aren't able to staff two crews."
But even with snowfall coming this late in the season, this winter has actually been pretty average.
"We spend a total of about $400,000-500,000 on both overtime and salt usage," said Montgomery County auditor Paul Gruner.
We called around to Miami, Greene Clark and Montgomery County and they all said today's snow brought them to the their seasonal budget.
Darke County's engineer estimates they may actually exceed the budget this winter, but they'll be the only local county to do so.
So while it may feel like this is a long winter and taxpayers have to fund more clean up, Martha Meikle says this is nothing.
"When we were kids, I remember one year my grandma had to tunnel out from her front door and that was the coolest thing ever and that was in Ohio and that wasn't that long ago," said Meikle. "I feel like my kids are being cheated out of winter because winters in Ohio lately haven't been very good."
County engineers say they saved almost half their budget with last years mild winter. So obviously they can use some of the funds they saved toward this years budget.
Connect with ABC 22/FOX 45 Reporter Wale Aliyu on Facebook and Twitter.