Outdoors. When shhveling, give yourselves frequent break, and check on your neighbors and pets. Conditions by signing up for kcrgs text alert. Just go to kcrgdotcom, click on the cancellations tab, then hit sign up. Then you can get phone notifications on severe weather, breaking news, and cancellatiis. The snow rolled into eastern iowa early yesterday afternoon, and Road Conditions all roads and highways were completely covered. Travel ww not adviseded in black hawk county. The storm is hitting just as football fans are heading to iowa city this morning. State troopers are warning drivers to use caution. Its justtgoing to takeeou looger to get ffm where youre going to where you need to go so when you get in your car and start heading out tonight or tomorrow during the game, just take that extra time and extra caution. Trooper onrad says one good thing about the storm people had time to plan for it. Rescue teams had to rescue a woman stuck in a creek near des moines. Kccitv reported a
Meteorologist Justin Gehrts is out in the mobile weather lab tonight, checking on Road Conditions. Justin, where are you and what are things looking like right now . Of course, in weather like this getting worse as the snow continues. This as snow plows tried to clear the interstates as well as roads in cities. One crash reduced northbound 380 to one tonight. This is from the department of transportatio n just a couple of hours ago near quaker oats. You can see at least one car spun around, blocking traffic. Kcrgtv 9s chris earl followed the roads as the snow accumulated. Chris joins us live from downtown cedar rapids with more. Chris . From the first snowflakes with thousands of people trying to get out of downtown cedar rapids after the friday workday to the more consistent snow that weve been dealing with for about 6 hours. This remains an active night for anyone not indoors. 3 30 pm. Overlooking interstate 380 south of cedar rapids. No snow. Yet. The feel of drivers trying to get h
Conditionssby signing up for kcrgs text alert. You can always stay up to date conditions by signing up for kcrgs text lert. Jus go to kcrggotcom, click on the cancellations tab, thehehit sign upp then you can get phone notifications on severe weather, breaking news, and cancellations. The snow rolled into eastern iowa early yesterday afternoon, and Road Conditions got worse overnight. The iowa dot said nearly all roads and highways were completely covered. Travel was not advised in black hawk county. The storm is hitting just as football fans are heading to iowa city this morning. State troopers are warning caution. Its just going to take you longer to get from where youre going to where you need to go so when you get in your car and start heading out toniggt or tomorrow during the game, just take that extra time and extra caution. Trooper conrad says one good thing about the storm people had time to plan for it. Rescue teams had to rescce a man stuck in creek near des moines. Kccitv r
Effect in cedar rapids an hour ago and will run until five oclock saturday afternoon. What it means is no parking on the marked snow routes so plows can clear the way. At the publii works builddg, ccews earlier today were in the final stages of getting the 90 pieces of equipment that plow snow ready for whats coming g ver night. The basic plan for plow drivers is to have some available after regular shifts end to begin the work of clearing street. The vast majority are set to come in at four in the morning on saturday. Thats when public works supervisors xpect the reaa push to clear streets to b bin. , cr streets superintenden t once you get over that four inch mark, it doesnt really matter if its six or nine. Especially with an early event like this well have the staff here to o andle it. Beiig like its tracking on an overnight hour we can really get our equipment out and handle it when theres not as much traffic and that helps us quite a bit if the snow comes in amounts predicted, th
The first snow of the season kept First Responders busy. This was the scene of a rescue last night in polk county. An suv slid off the road and into a creek. Northeast of des moines in the town of berwick. Ames saw the bulk of the snow in our area. And plenty of crashes as well. Pole said the roads were like bumper cars for a time, with several accidents caused by the slippery weather. The driver of this suv apparently underestimated the treacherous roads and flipped her vehicle. The accident left the driver shaken, but not seriously hurt. For those who avoided an accident, the snow still caused some traffic headaches for iowa drivers. Joining us by phone now, Sergeant Nathan ludwig from the iowa state patrol, for the latest on how roads dont let the first snow leave you with a 35 dollar ticket stuck to your windshield. This year, there are no warnings for people who park along a snow route in des moines. Knowing where to park is a challenge in these five neighborhoods. On odd numbered