Winter not quite ready to leave yet

By KEN BLACK, TIMES-REPUBLICAN
It snowed — again.

Central Iowa residents hoping to get a bit more spring cleaning done outside Thursday were greeted to a rude awakening. Right about 7 a.m., it started to snow — and it hardly let up at all the entire day.

“It’s more than we expected,” said Marshalltown Police Chief Lon Walker. “Now they’re saying we might get hit with three to five inches.”

The chief reported there had been several weather-related automobile accidents in town and roads were slick both in the cities and in the country.

By mid morning, most of the snow had melted from the road surfaces.

Of course, the wintry weather is nothing new to area residents. This has been one of the snowiest winters on record.

But there is good news. The snow will not last long.

Temperatures call for a return to the lower 40s tomorrow and rebounding to 50 degrees or more within the next five days.

And for those who want to complain, remember it could be worse.

It was about this time last year when all homes in the area finally got power restored after the February ice storms.

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