Posted on 10/29/2009 6:19:13 AM PDT by stan_sipple
SCOTTSBLUFF - Light snow continues to fall over much of Nebraska's Panhandle, further hampering travelers already blocked by highway closures.
The slow-moving snowstorm made road travel into Colorado and Wyoming all but impossible Thursday morning.
The Nebraska Roads Department says Interstate 80 was closed west of Big Springs, all the way to Laramie, Wyo. At the north end of the Panhandle, U.S. Highway 20 was closed west of Crawford.
In several spots Wednesday, cars and other vehicles had spun off slick roadways. But a Nebraska State Patrol dispatcher in Scottsbluff said Thursday that no fatalities had been reported.
Authorities say snow is still falling in Chadron, Alliance and Scottsbluff, adding to accumulations of a foot or more in some places.
Much snow Frank?
Seems early for snow & ice, but you can never tell with all the ‘Globull Warming’ going on these days. ;)
How can this be? We have man-made global warming, don’t we? sarc/off
Light snow around El Paso and into Mexico?
Here’s my favorite eye-candy radar site:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
We’re getting rain later today from this system. I have like a 2-hour window to get my fall bulbs planted, LOL!
I’m a fan of weather porn too! ;)
My Windows background is that loop. I just right-click and choose refresh to have the latest loop!
Oh, I like that radar site....wish we here in the desert could get a drop or two; very dusty these days.
Sorry. Sorry! I forgot to turn off the weather AC last night. My bad.
I never thought about that for a background...good idea!
snow? what’s that?
*shrug*
oh well... off to the beach again today
Nope, no snow here on the eastern slope of the Sandhills of Nebraska, just rain.
Temperatures circa 50 degrees, no wind.
Thats good to hear. Glad you and your herd of cats are okay, even though you are not a cat person.
My BFF lives in Omaha. They had 4+ inches of snow a few weeks ago. And more snow events since then.
The motor vehicle's in town being winterized, so I'm stuck out here on the lone prairies today. I decided to make some lemon poppyseed bread (Betty Crocker), and had to kick all the cats outdoors, as I'm nervous about using a natural gas stove, and I don't want them blown up.
I can understand why gas stoves would worry you, since you couldn’t hear it hiss if gas leaked. The bread sounds good, I’d have it with milk. *snicker*.
Yeah, life would be a lot less stressful with an all-electric house; no gases to explode one into the next life. I kick all the cats outdoors even when I'm just turning on a top burner.
Safety.
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