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Ice-covered alley frustrates Davenport business owner
The only way to access Ritzi Reruns is through an alley just north of the business. However, that alley is covered in inches of ice and compacted snow. Author: Josh Lamberty (WQAD) Updated: 10:18 PM CST February 21, 2021
DAVENPORT, Iowa Off a busy Locust Street in Davenport, business inside Ritzi Reruns is slow. This is not going to go away in a day, said Sherry Hopkins.
Business is slow, because owner Sherry Hopkins customers cannot get into the parking lot. It s hard as concrete, Hopkins said. People are getting stuck. People have been towed. People can t get in. We ve had somebody lose a muffler, somebody pop a tire.
what a day we had yesterday. let s bring in tony perkins and give him credit where it is due. i can t take the credit because then i have to take the blame. we made it up to 71 degrees yesterday. today not a bad day. it won t quite match yesterday but not bad. then we ve got the changes coming we ve been talking about. let s take a look at what we ve been talking about out there. we ll start with hd radar. we are dry this morning. we ll see more clouds move in. right now, we re try. take a look out to the west. pretty vigorous storm system out there, lots of thunderstorm activity in missouri, arkansas, into western portions of tennessee. ments a big storm system. it is headed eastward but it is a long way away from here and we won t get any precipitation working in here until late tonight in all likelihood. current temperatures at the area airports, reagan national, 51 degrees. dulles is at 45 degrees. bwi marshall is at 51-degree. we ll see sunshine early today and uncre