use caution if you have to be out anywhere in iowa tonight. lots of blowing snow making roads treacherous for evening kcci s vanessa peng is live in ames with current conditions. vanessa: when strong winds start whipping the snow around blowing snow can really create it s own problems. vanessa: city, county, and state plow drivers can only do so much. you could start to clear the roadway and then we have isolated spots where you think the road s ok and somebody sets their cruise control again and they end up in a slick spot and spin out of control. vanessa: the problem is the wind makes certain areas of the road appear clear, but then the minute there is a wind break ice and snow piles up. some of the closed areas, the protected areas, are the worst right now because the winds blowing most of the snow off where it s not protected, but the protected areas is really bad. vanessa: on both the rural and take it slow, increase your following distance, and don t use your cr
jasper, boone, story and marshall. travel is not advised on i-80 east between mitchellville and grinnell. kcci s laura terrell starts our team 8 coverage from along i-80. laura: a snow covered interstate. is leaving several cars scattered in the ditch along i 80 east, like this fed ex truck near mitchellville. things were going too slow and i just didn t want to cause an accident or be in an accident. laura: truck driver jacob benson decided to just park it for the night. i parked here just for my personal safety. i found a place where i could park so i figured i would stop for the night. laura: michael morton and his family are only stopping for a quick rest stop break on their trip from sioux city to ohio. we ve seen six semis jackknifed. we ve seen two of them tipped over. we ve seen about four or five cars in the banks. laura: even though travel is not advised they ve decided to keep going just at a slower pace. we are doing about 40. and then with the truckers ar