Buffalo officials say they are ready for winter. New equipment has been purchased based on the lessons learned from last year's major "Snowvember" storm.
The new vehicles include special tracked equipment to haul snowmobiles into snow-buried areas as was needed last winter.
"A big truck like this new tandem here, that would cost in the range of $125,000, all fully equipped," said Public Works Commissioner Steven Stepniak.
"Equipment like this, those are in the $15-20,000 range. They're expensive pieces of equipment. But, when you need them, you really need them. There's no sense not having those available to you."
Mayor Brown says the latest in equipment to battle snow cost more than $1 million this winter, part of more than $8 million spent since he became mayor to deal with the season.
Other equipment includes the computer-controlled salt spreaders which put the right amount of salt on the street no matter how fast the plow is going and the GPS which tells City Hall exactly what streets have been plowed and where the plow trucks are.
