Local emergency personnel grateful residents stayed off roads
Officials with the Jefferson City police and fire departments were glad that their messages earlier this week to stay home and stay off the roads seemed to be taken to heart.
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Officials with the Jefferson City police and fire departments were glad that their messages earlier this week to stay home and stay off the roads seemed to be taken to heart.
Mid-Missouri is expected to become a "battleground" for opposing weather systems as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico jostles with a cold Canadian air mass.
The first real snow storm this winter in Central Missouri didn't cause many problems for local road crews.
Forecasters were predicting Thursday morning's anticipated snowfall would be light, and would hit around the morning rush hour.
Two months ago, Missouri Department of Transportation officials said they were worried about not having enough drivers to push the snow off the roads.