Des Moines, Iowa – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Thursday (Today) signed an extension to the proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through January 29, 2022. It allows vehicles transporting corn, soybeans, hay, straw, silage and stover to be overweight (not exceeding 90,000 pounds gross weight) without a permit for the duration of this proclamation.
The proclamation applies to loads transported on all highways within Iowa (excluding the interstate system) and those which do not exceed a maximum of 90,000 pounds gross weight, do not exceed the maximum axle weight limit determined under the non-primary highway maximum gross weight table in section 321.463 (6)(b) of the Iowa Code by more than 12.5 percent, do not exceed the legal maximum axle weight limit of 20,000 pounds, and comply with posted limits on roads and bridges.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – A public hearing was held this (Thursday) morning in Atlantic, with regard to proposed re-precincting (that is, setting the election precinct boundaries), based on the results of the 2020 Census. Setting the boundaries did not include any changes to where the polling places are, at this time. That is likely to happen later, and should only affect two rural areas. The reprecincting hearing occurred during a regular weekly meeting of the Cass County Board of Supervisors. Following the hearing, the three member Redistricting Commission approved their plan and the Supervisors followed suit.
Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman…
Sunderman said there were only minor changes to the precinct map.
A hearing will be held to officially establish the election precincts on January 7th.
The maps are available on the Cass County website Auditor’s page, under “Voting Information,” and as shown below.
Proposed Supervisor Districts
Atlantic Election Wards
Proposed precinct map
Election precinct information
If the Supervisors had failed to set the precincts, it would have been up to the Iowa Legislative Services Agency (LSA) to draw the lines.
In other business, the Cass County Supervisors approved a Class-C Beer Permit for Hansen Valley Oil (rural Atlantic), and acted on adopting the Cass County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan resolution. In his report to the Board, Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken said bridge number 208 over Indian Creek is now open with the installation completed on a box-culvert project.
The Board also passed a Resolution Authorizing the County to Enter into Settlement Agreements with McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Inc., AmerisourceBergen Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Janssen Pharmaceuitca, Inc., with regard to the Terms of the Iowa Opioid Allocation Memorandum of Understanding, and entry Into that Memorandum of Understanding.
And, the Board approved the Cass County Master Matrix Scoring and Recommendation for A-to-Z Feeders’ proposed cattle confinement barn, prior to hearing a monthly report from Cass County Mental Health/General Relief Coordinator Deb Schuler.
(Radio Iowa) – Travel in and out of the state has continued to recover from the pandemic shutdowns. Iowa D-O-T spokesperson, Stuart Anderson, recently told the Transportation Commission that air travel is still getting back to normal. “We are seeing passenger counts at our eight commercial service airports continuing at about that 85 percent level compared to 2019 levels,” Anderson says.
Anderson says it is uncertain what impact the latest COVID variants might have on those airline traffic levels. He says travel on the state roadways has bounced back and held. “We’ve been very steady right around that pre-pandemic level comparing our average traffic daily figures compared to 2019 levels to try to get to the pre-pandemic levels. Overall, we are really right at those pre-pandemic levels,” he says.
Anderson says the volume on the county system is a little above the pre-pandemic levels — while the traffic in cities is a little below those levels.
Keegan Murray dropped home 29 points and had 10 rebounds to lead Iowa to a 92-71 win over Western Illinois on Wednesday night in Iowa City. Jordan Bohannon and Payton Sandfort each added 13 points and Patrick McCaffery scored 11.
Iowa jumped out to a nice start in the game and scored 53 points in the first half. The Hawkeyes improved to 10-3 on the season.
Next up for the Hawkeyes is a home game against Maryland on Monday at 8:00 p.m. We’ll have coverage on KJAN starting at 7:00 p.m. that evening.
1/4 package (24 oz.) frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
2 cups (8 oz.) shredded Cheddar cheese
1 medium onion, chopped, or instant onions
2 (2.8 oz.) cans French fried onions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a heavy skillet, cook beef with pinch of salt until browned, stirring to break into small pieces; drain. In a large bowl mix beef, potatoes, soup, sour cream, cheese and chopped onion. Spread into 9″ x 13″ baking dish. Bake 30 minutes. Top with fried onions. Bake 15 minutes more or until bubbly. Makes 8 servings.
(Radio Iowa) – Weather observers are still trying to get a perspective on the intense storm system that blasted across Iowa earlier this month, the second derecho to hit us in as many years — which spun off a record number of tornadoes. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the storm was historic in many ways, like how the “moderate area risk” was issued for Iowa. “Moderate” may sound tame but that’s a Level Four warning out of five. “This was the first ‘moderate area’ put out by the Storm Prediction Center in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin during the month of December in history,” Glisan says. “This tells you how unstable the environment was. We had wind shear available, we had instability available, we had ample low level moisture, and all of the ingredients came together for a large-scale straight line wind and tornadic event.”
About half of the state was declared a disaster by the governor, and Glisan says damage was widespread from the multitude of tornadoes, the severe thunderstorms and the straight line winds, some of which had gusts that reached 80 to 90 miles an hour. “We’d also had multiple reports of 70 mile-per-hour winds based on non-thunderstorm winds,” he says. “These are winds that are produced by the tight pressure gradient that the low pressure system was able to produce, given its proximity to a blocking high pressure system that was able to amp up our temperatures during the day, overnight on the 14th and into the 15th.”
Iowa cities from Sioux City all the way to Burlington reported record high temperatures during the day, most of them springlike upper 60s and lower 70s — unheard of for mid-December. Those temps quickly fell when the storm hit, dropping 30 to 40 degrees, helping to fuel the violent weather. A total of 43 tornadoes were reported in Iowa during this storm, and one death was attributed to the winds — a truck driver whose big rig was flipped into a Benton County ditch. Those 43 twisters set a single-day record for Iowa. At least seven tornadoes were also reported in Nebraska during the storm, and there was an exceptionally rare twister to our north. “We had the first tornado in Minnesota history in December,” Glisan says. “Given the large-scale nature of this outbreak, while one fatality is too much, it is good news that we were able to get the proper warnings up.”
More than 150-thousand Iowa homes lost power during the storm and it took several days to get them all back online. Like the first derecho that hit Iowa back on August 10th of 2020, Glisan says they’ll long be studying this second derecho from December 15th of 2021.
Today: Becoming partly cloudy. High near 35. S/SE @ 10 mph. Tonight: P/Cldy. Low around 20. SE @ 5 mph. Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 32. N @ 10-20. Tom. Night: Cloudy & blustery w/a 30% chance of snow after midnight. Low around -1. N @ 15-25 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. New Year’s Day: **WINTER STORM WATCH**Snow likely, mainly before noon. Patchy blowing snow. High near 13. Saturday Night: A 20% chance of snow before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around -13. Sunday: P/Cldy. High around 20.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 21. Our Low was 12. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 25 and the Low was -4. The Record High on this date was 64 in 2004. The Record Low was -22 in 1917.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa has still not named a starting quarterback for Saturday’s Citrus Bowl against Kentucky. Spencer Petras started the last two games but was relieved in the second half of both by Alex Padilla.
That’s Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz who has confidence in both quarterbacks.
Ferentz says he is only concerned about this bowl game and not how the decisions made will impact the future plans of both.
Kentucky defensive coordinator Brad White says both quarterbacks are similar.
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