Use caution if you have to be out anywhere in iowa tonight. Lots of blowing snow making roads treacherous for evening kccis vanessa peng is live in ames with current conditions. Vanessa when strong winds start whipping the snow around blowing snow can really create its 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 roads 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 its not protected, but the protected areas is really bad. Vanessa on both the rural and take it slow, increase your following distance, and dont use your Cruise Control. Drive for the
Jasper, boone, story and marshall. Travel is not advised on i80 east between mitchellville and grinnell. Kccis Laura Terrell starts our team 8 coverage from along i80. 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 didnt 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. Weve seen six semis jackknifed. Weve seen two of them tipped over. Weve seen about four or five cars in the banks. Laura even though travel is not advised theyve decided to keep going just at a slower pace. We are doing about 40. And then with the truckers around, we drop down to about 30