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Icy roads, freezing rain and snow flurries expected after winter storm pounds Midwest
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 12 - 2007


Highways were still slippery in
parts of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday as utility crews
restored power knocked out by a snow and ice storm blamed
for at least six traffic deaths, according to AP.
A few light flurries lingered over Nebraska, Iowa and
southeastern Minnesota on Sunday as the core of the storm
was sliding through the Northeast.
Less than 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) of snow had fallen by
midday in New Jersey, with little more than a dusting in
other areas, but the National Weather Service said a foot
(30 centimeters) of snow was possible in the mountains of
northern New England, with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters)
in northern Maine.
With snowfall that light, and a changeover to rain
expected later Sunday in places, the New Jersey Turnpike
Authority salted its roads Sunday and did not bother to
plow.
«It's not a bad way to start the season,» said Joe
Orlando, a spokesman for the authority. «Compared to
what's happening in the Midwest, we've kind of got it easy
right now.»
Airlines at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport worked
to move travelers stranded when hundreds of flights were
canceled during the storm Saturday. Flights also were
canceled Saturday at airports in Des Moines and Milwaukee
as blowing snow reduced visibility.
Des Moines International Airport was closed for several
hours after an airliner slid off a taxiway as it headed to
a runway for a flight to O'Hare. None of the 44 passengers
was injured and the airport reopened by mid-afternoon. A
regional jet slid off pavement when it turned onto a
taxiway after landing at Dane County Regional Airport in
Madison, Wisconsin, but no injuries were reported among the
25 passengers.
The weather service had posted winter storm and ice
warnings Saturday across parts of Nebraska, Iowa,
Wisconsin, the eastern Dakotas, Illinois and northern
Michigan. Nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow fell at
Duluth, Minnesota.
Driving was still hazardous Sunday in much of Michigan as
snow and ice coated roads, but planes were landing and
taking off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport without delay
Sunday, said spokesman Mike Conway.
Utility companies in Illinois said the lights are back on
for most people who lost electricity as ice weighed down
power lines. About 14,000 customers were still waiting for
service Sunday, down from nearly 140,000 that were blacked
out Sunday, utilities said.
Before the storm hit the Midwest, it dumped up to 2 feet
(60 centimeters) of snow in the mountains of western
Colorado. A half foot (15 centimeters) of snow at Beaver
Creek forced organizers to postpone a men's World Cup
super-G skiing event from Saturday to Monday.
One member of the Purdue University ice hockey team was
killed Saturday when a team van overturned on a slippery
highway about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of West
Lafayette, Indiana, school officials said. Seven others
were injured.
Three people were killed in separate traffic accidents
blamed on the weather in Wisconsin, a 13-year-old girl died
in a two-car wreck in Illinois, one person was killed in an
overturned van in Michigan and one person died in a
Colorado traffic accident.


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