Commuter forecast: In and around Douglas County

Mike Perkins, operations director for Douglas County, reports that all blacktop roads in rural parts of the county are treated, plowed and passable. All gravel roads are snowpacked.

Bottom line: “People should be able to get back and forth,” he said. “They just need to take it easy a little bit.”

Tom Orzulak said crews in Lawrence have been out plowing since 10 a.m., with other treatments starting at 4:30 a.m.

He said roads are OK for now, and if drivers move slowly they’ll be able to get around with a minimum of problems.

A rundown:

• County Road 1055, from Baldwin City to Lawrence: “It’s not bad. It’s slushy. It has bare pavement tracks. It’s probably one of our better roads.”

• Douglas County Road 442 (old Kansas Highway 10), which leads into Eudora: snowpacked, spotty, snowplowed with “a little slush.”

• County Road 1061, south of Eudora: All snowpacked, “but it’s all treated.”

• County Road 442, also known as Stuff Road, which leads toward Topeka: “It’s all treated and plowed, slushy in spots.”

• U.S. Highway 59, south of Lawrence: Generally snowpacked, said Kim Qualls, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Transportation.