safety. fred is talking about heavy snow totals. jenna: and we have some pictures from today s storms. this picture comes to us from looking at a arnold s park. this is a before emmetsburg. sending this in barb. and finally. christine snapped a picture in cherokee for us. this was from earlier in the day. so more snow has accumulated since than. tim: we re switching seasons a bit now for an update on the future for a couple of sioux city s public swimming pools. a public meeting is coming up on december first. to give your input on the plan to close a couple pools after next season. the proposal is to close cook and leeds pools after next summer. eventually, lief erikson will also close and lewis will be replaced center. eric griffith, recreation kind of the misconception i hear from everybody is wild water west in looking at a family similar to riverside, version of riverside. tim: if you want to voice your opinion about the future of the pools, again the public meeting is
live in sioux city elisa raffa abc 9 news. tim: thanks elisa, for that report tim: sioux city drivers are experiencing their fair share of today s snow storm as several people were spotted downtown and unable to move. some drivers stopped to get gas to and began to make hotel arrangements until the driving conditions lightened up, while others just were just plain stuck. i was just trying to go up this hill and i just kind of got stuc it s kind of hard, it s a little different living in a place where there are a lot of hills so, said jordan schultz. some drivers told abc 9 that the weather caught them off guar,..others say that they are surprised that it hadn t come sooner. city and state plows remain on the road tonight. reporter bria bell joins from 19th and hamilton ave where local drivers experienced especially tough going. tim: reporter bria bell are things going out there?? bria tim and jenna im here in sioux city to send it back over to you in studio reporting live i
been about 30 have been since noon today. officer mcclure those accidents cause serious injuries, but he cannot express enough how serious these conditions can be and to not risk it if you don t have to and to check your tires and to make sure that withstand these circumstances. reporting live in sioux city, bria bell abc 9 news. tim: thanks for that report bria jenna: the timing of the snow made for a bad situation for some busses trying to get kids home from school. a parent took this vodeo of a bus stuck at north high school. you can see a car start to lose control as it comes down the hill. and runs right into the stranded bus. we don t know of any injuries, but we have heard multiple reports of kids that got home hours laters than tim: this afternoon, woodbury county put a tow ban in effect, meaning cars that get stranded will have to stay there until at least tomorrow. hills around town wererespecially tricky, and i-29 and lewis boulavard were backed up for a good part
saturday helps support local business owners and their families. each business provides something special to siouxland. pierce street coffee works is another siouxland shop that benefits from small business saturday. 21 years ago ron johns helped open the coffee because he felt like sioux city needed a good coffee house. he says throughout the shop s years itit always had great support from m local customers. i think because it s a small business you know mom and pop kind of thing that the community can come to and support the employees that work here things like that i just think it s a great place to hang out, said pierce street coffee works owner, ron johns. pierce street coffee works serves breakfast and lunch 7 days a week. johns says every walk of life comes in and the doors and he loves that anybody can tiffany? thanks, tommie. another cool day but that s not the biggest of our issues. a winter storm could be headed our way. chief meteorologis t ron demers has
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