A Snow Emergency is automatically in effect whenever 3 or more inches of snow has fallen. For the safety of your vehicles and for snow removal purposes- vehicles are prohibited from parking on City streets during a snow emergency and may not be put back in the street until the snow emergency has been cancelled. Notification of a snow emergency and it's cancellation can be found on this web site, GCTV (Comcast 12, WOW 18 and U-verse 99), on local Detroit television and radio outlets, or you can be notified automatically through Nixle on your cell phone or to your e-mail account.