Shelby County Engineer Dan Ahart has advised that they are pulling the Motor Graders off the gravel roads. With the freezing rain still falling they are not able to make much progress. Ahart advised that the Motor Graders would start back up at 6-a.m. Tuesday. Shelby County Engineers Office wanted to assure the public that the Sanding Trucks would remain out at this point.
Road conditions continue to deteriorate, travel is not recommended unless it is an Extreme Emergency.
KARL LeROY ALDAG, 86, of Atlantic, died Monday, Jan. 16th, at Mercy Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for KARL ALDAG will be held 1-p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19th, at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Friends may call at Zion Lutheran Church from 11-until 1-p.m. Thursday, with the family present.
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery.
KARL ALDAG is survived by:
His wife – Lorene Aldag of Atlantic.
His son – Craig (Jodi) Aldag, of Urbandale.
His daughters – Jackie (Chuck) Sievers, and Jodi (Randy) Christoffersen, all of Atlantic.
7 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Roads and sidewalks remain extremely slick. As temperatures fluctuate the rest of today there will be periods where roads are completely ice covered. Travel is not advised for Guthrie and Adair Counties, according to law enforcement officials.
Stuart Police report the Stuart Streets Dept. is having mechanical problems with its salt/sander truck. That’s making it more difficult for them to get roads clear. Private contractors are assisting, however officials say the situation will still affect the street conditions and prevent the Streets Dept. from clearing the streets as quickly as they usually do.
Authorities advise “Please stay home and off the roads if at all possible. The chances for accidents is extremely high.”
WALNUT, Iowa (AP) – Residents hope streetscape work and building renovations will help return their small town of Walnut to its former glory. The Pottawattamie County community of around 775 residents has long been known as the Antique City for its many antique shops. Mayor Gene Larsen told The Daily Nonpareil that the project is part of the community’s effort “to maintain the vitality of the antique trade.”
Construction started in November on facade upgrades on 16 storefronts. The work should be finished in time for the 35th annual Walnut Antique Show Father’s Day weekend, June 16-18. The streetscape work includes upgrades to sidewalks, curbs and gutters as well as straightening and leveling the cobblestone roadway downtown.
The $1.09 million project is funded in part by $700,000 in grants.
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The National Weather Service is updating the amount of ice that has accumulated at various communities across the state this morning. Ice generally ranged from .1″ (one-tenth of an inch) to .2″ across parts of west-central and southwest Iowa, to as much as .3″ in eastern Iowa, near Cedar Falls. An additional .1″ to .25″ can be expected across the listening area before the precipitation ends early Tuesday morning.
Atlantic, .1″ (KJAN)
Audubon (1 mile S/SE), .1″
Carroll, .1″
Lorimor, .2″
Mt. Ayr, .25″
The ice storm will continue through much of the day today with the bulk of the freezing rain accrual occurring through around midday. An additional tenth to quarter inch of ice is likely by this afternoon across much of central Iowa. Above freezing temperatures at the surface look to creep into southern Iowa later this morning and mitigate the additional ice amounts. By tonight, light wintry mix is anticipated on the backside of the low pressure system over northern Iowa where light snow/sleet accumulations are possible. Mainly light freezing rain or freezing drizzle can be expected elsewhere with an additional glaze of ice possible. Once this system clears the state late tonight, above normal temperatures return to the state by the end of the week.
Ice-covered tree limbs are snapping across a wide section of Iowa, causing hundreds of power outages. An Ice Storm Warning is posted for much of western and central Iowa, stretching as far east as Waterloo. Meteorologist Brad Small, at the National Weather Service bureau in Johnston, says that layer of ice is making travel very slow-going.
State and local crews are spreading sand, salt and brine on the roads, feverishly working to make those thoroughfares passable, but the elements aren’t cooperating. “Air and road temperatures are hovering right around the freezing mark, plus or minus a degree or two,” Small says. “There will be some melting today but unfortunately, with this additional rain, we could see additional accumulations of ice. Temperatures for highs will only be the mid-30s at best and that’s only over southern Iowa.”
Sometimes, even the road crews get into trouble. Earlier this (Monday) morning, two Adair County snowplows and a County truck spun off White Pole Road into the ditch south of Interstate 80. No injuries were reported.
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Tuesday morning’s commute should be much better, Small says, as the road crews will have had a full day or more to combat the sheets of ice. “Tomorrow, there could be some minor melting but the good news is, we don’t have any precipitation in the forecast into mid-week,” Small says. “We may actually see highs in the 30s and 40s and possibly even 50 or more by Thursday.”
In southwest Iowa, about 62 customers of the Southwest Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative were without power in Taylor and Ringgold Counties, combined, and minor, scattered outages were reported by Mid-American Energy in Pottawattamie County. The few customers affected in Pott. County had their power restored by 9-a.m. or so. As of 9:30-a.m., Alliant Energy reported 64 customers were affected by an outage in Adair County, 90 in Madison County, and 27 were affected in Union County.
Power outages were worst in the Des Moines metro as MidAmerican Energy reported nearly 24-hundred customers had no electricity earlier today, though the utility say most are now back online.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN)
Sheriff’s officials in Union County report the arrest Sunday evening, of 19-year old Mikhail Matthew Smith, of Maryville, MO. Smith was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center for theft 1st degree. His bond was set at $10,000.
Saturday evening, 56-year old Tommy Allen Green, Jr., of Lorimor, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center on a Union County warrant for failure to appear on the original charge of dominion/control of firearm/offensive weapon by felon. Green was being held in the Union County Jail without bond pending a decision by a Judge.
Sheriff’s officials said also, a Lorimor man reported Friday morning, that sometime in the past week, someone broke in to his garage and took a salamander heater and 5 gallons of gasoline. Estimated value of the items taken is $665.
Conditions across Shelby County and western Iowa are expected to remain treacherous today. Shelby County Sheriff Neil Gross is not recommending travel at this time. Also, a tow ban is in effect until further notice. Shelby County Emergency Management will post up to date information on their facebook page (Shelby County Emergency Management), and through local media outlets, including KJAN.
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