The update. Jenna fred is back inside. And has an update on what we should expect. Tim fred fred up to 1of slushy, sloppy accumulation will be possible tonight. After midnight, the precipitation will end, but the wind will not. Here is a look at the storm reports for today. Jenna todays storms caused problems afternoon afafr lightning struck a me. Authorities say thatightning hit the chimney of this home on the 4900 block of morningside avenue around 1 30 this afternoon. Two people were home at the time the incident happened however, they were able to get out of the home ok. The home did suffer minor smoke damage to the chimney and attic area of the home. Tim over 11 thousand people in the sioux city metro were without power briefly today after some problems with a local sub station. Officials with mid American Energy say that the outage only lasted about 4 minutes right around 11 this morninin the company y ys that the outage occured at a sub station where crews were already working,
National Weather Service Officials Say the system began tuesday around utah. Then moving east into the nations midsection. In knoxville iowa. Powerful winds and rain packing a punch. Tearing down trees and ripping through Industrial Buildings in this toto. Nearby, flflping this semi on its side. The driver doingngk. In a a. 3 rollover mi truck wrecks reportedsday near avoca iowa. Nats wind blizzard the storm didnt stop there. Ortions of new mexico, wyoming, colorado, nebraska and kansas saw blizzard like conditions. Some of those same states hit with thunderstorms well. Truck driver its been rough, slow going. 55mph from kansas city, thats about all i could get. You just wanna go, go, go but you cant nats snow scraping. From snow to ice. In colorado. . Frozen roads more like an ice skating rink for drivers. Nats wind blizzard he saving it, he saved it lighter snow in western kansas. But residents bracing themselves for slower commmmes. In northern california. The early dosesef Winter W
3 3 todays weather to blame for a fire call in morningside earlier this afternoon. Lightning struck the chimney of a home in the 49 hundred block of morningside avenue at around 1 30 this afternoon. Fire crews responded after the homeowner reported smoke in her attic. They found damage to the chimney and some minor scorch marks to the top of the home. A woman and her son were home at the time. But were not injured. 3 3 and in western nebraska. Theyve seen their first recorded snowfall of 2015 out of this storm system thats now moving through siouxland. This video is from north platte, nebraska. While they saw some heavy, wet snow. Parts of southwest nebraska, northeast colorado and northwest kansas were included in a blizzard warning today. Thankfully, it doesnt look like were not going to see those conditions in siouxland just yet. 3 3 despite the rainy and miserable conditions outside for most of the day. Today is veterans day. Sioux citys Hyvee Grocery stores got the days celebratio