Storm sidelines region, and it's not going away
UPDATE
By Dolly A. ButzJournal staff writer | Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008
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Residents across the region and the state are digging out today from a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow.
Schools across the state sent students home on Thursday before the storm hit, and told them to stay home on Friday.
The National Weather Service said today that up to 11 inches of snow had fallen in northern Iowa, with a-half inch of ice in the south and a mix in central Iowa, including 1-2 inches of sleet. Sioux City woke up to around 10 inches of snow.
The storm was expected to be out of Iowa by this afternoon, but winds later today are expected to whip up snow and create blizzard-like conditions for much of the next 48 hours.
Rod Donavon with the weather service in Johnston said temperatures are expected to plunge below zero Saturday night, with dangerous wind chill readings of 40 below zero.
Donovan said the Midwest has been caught in a stormy pattern, similar to last year. "We've been having storms move through about every one or two days right now. That's going to continue this week and maybe another little system on Tuesday."
Travel warning
Sioux City police today are not recommending travel this morning due to snow-covered streets.
Lt. Marti Reilly said officers have responded to three accidents since midnight, and have also assisted quite a few motorists who got stuck in the snow.
"The main arteries are quite good. The side streets are impassible if not impossible," Reilly said.
City crews are clearing snow routes first, and then they will move into the neighborhoods.
Move your cars
Dig your cars out of the snow or be prepared to pay up.
That's acfording to Sioux City Police's Reilly, who said officers noticed many motorists have failed to move their cars from the sides of city streets following a recent snowstorm.
That is a violation of city ordinances, which require vehicles be moved every 24 hours, and makes it hard to clear roads following snowstorms.
"(Street crews) have to be able to plow and in order to remove snow effectively they have to go curbline to curbline," Reilly said.
Vehicles that have not been moved -- and it's really easy to tell which ones haven't -- will be towed, which will be charged to the owner of the vehicle.
They're not blowing smoke.
According to the police log, officers have already started tagging vehicles for tow that hadn't been moved from the snowstorm earlier this week.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Links to check road conditions, and other travel tips.
Closings and cancellations
Links to area event closings and cancellations.
Photo gallery
Siouxland digs out from all that snow.
Share a photo
Send us your snowy day photos.
Residents across the region and the state are digging out today from a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow.
Schools across the state sent students home on Thursday before the storm hit, and told them to stay home on Friday.
The National Weather Service said today that up to 11 inches of snow had fallen in northern Iowa, with a-half inch of ice in the south and a mix in central Iowa, including 1-2 inches of sleet. Sioux City woke up to around 10 inches of snow.
The storm was expected to be out of Iowa by this afternoon, but winds later today are expected to whip up snow and create blizzard-like conditions for much of the next 48 hours.
Rod Donavon with the weather service in Johnston said temperatures are expected to plunge below zero Saturday night, with dangerous wind chill readings of 40 below zero.
Donovan said the Midwest has been caught in a stormy pattern, similar to last year. "We've been having storms move through about every one or two days right now. That's going to continue this week and maybe another little system on Tuesday."
Travel warning
Sioux City police today are not recommending travel this morning due to snow-covered streets.
Lt. Marti Reilly said officers have responded to three accidents since midnight, and have also assisted quite a few motorists who got stuck in the snow.
"The main arteries are quite good. The side streets are impassible if not impossible," Reilly said.
City crews are clearing snow routes first, and then they will move into the neighborhoods.
Move your cars
Dig your cars out of the snow or be prepared to pay up.
That's acfording to Sioux City Police's Reilly, who said officers noticed many motorists have failed to move their cars from the sides of city streets following a recent snowstorm.
That is a violation of city ordinances, which require vehicles be moved every 24 hours, and makes it hard to clear roads following snowstorms.
"(Street crews) have to be able to plow and in order to remove snow effectively they have to go curbline to curbline," Reilly said.
Vehicles that have not been moved -- and it's really easy to tell which ones haven't -- will be towed, which will be charged to the owner of the vehicle.
They're not blowing smoke.
According to the police log, officers have already started tagging vehicles for tow that hadn't been moved from the snowstorm earlier this week.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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