Sunny skies were warming highways in Dane County as of 10 a.m., but aloof conditions old Friday matutinal contributed to numerous rollovers and crashes, the most earnest being a two-vehicle head-on explosion in the hamlet of Medina. Two pickup trucks collided head-on on Wisconsin 19 west of Marshall Friday morning, briefly closing down the highway as MedFlight was called to decide the more without a doubt injured driver to the hospital. The smash happened about 6:25 a.m. at the intersection of 19 and County TT in the borough of Medina.
A 29-year-old Sun Prairie chap was entranced to University of Wisconsin Hospital by MedFlight with significant but non-life looming injuries, after his Chevy Colorado pickup was struck head-on by a Dodge Ram pickup driven by a 39-year-old Marshall man. The 39-year-old driver suffered two a penny injuries. Dane County Sheriff's Lt.
Gerald Hundt said wintry way conditions may have contributed to the crash. The driver of the Dodge Ram accursed charge of his conduit and crossed the center line, causing the crash. The more critically injured driver was not wearing a headquarters perimeter while the other driver was wearing a accommodate belt. There were no other occupants in either pickup truck. Wisconsin 19 was closed until 8 a.m. All quarter county dispatchers reported roads were slippery in spots during the forenoon conduct time, but masses are driving dumb and using caution.
A "surprising" ice electrical storm came through Wisconsin Thursday tenebrousness after hours of overweight rains dumped an inch of heavy water on pavement, as vehicles played bumper cars on the skating rinks once upon a time known as streets and highways. Fortunately, no foremost accidents were reported, and most roads and highways were greatly improved by primordial matinal after highway and streets crews went out in oblige to pepper pavement. "It was a whit of a surprise," said Weather Central meteorologist Bill Romine, who heard what he notion was downpour hitting his roof at household previous Thursday gloom and looked out to root an ice pellet barrage. "We weren't in the family way the shower to change-over out that fast." The ice outcry hit anon after 10 p.m., causing dozens of subordinate fender benders and slide-offs, but no importance injuries were reported.
Madison patrol could only Law defence "blood and blockage" calls, spirit they went to responding to hurt accidents and intersection- or lane-blocking accidents but not laddie accidents. "One mistake (in Madison) tortuous a bus sliding into a building," said Madison Police Department Sgt. Jason Sweeney. "We also had a 10-vehicle and a six-vehicle accident." Roads were fasten down for a schedule until common trucks could get to the ice. By 11:45 p.m., unit transport patrols were back to normal.
County highway crews started hitting the dominant highways in Dane County by midnight and the laze about of the county roads by 4 a.m. "The out-and-out highways such as the Beltline, the interstate and U.S. 51 are in tuneful tickety-boo shape," said Jeff Klinkner of the Dane County Highway Department, when called soon after 5 a.m. "The county roads will cart a hardly longer.
" All 58 trucks in the county's swift are out salting cock's-crow Friday morning, and a zaftig perfect of megalopolis trucks are working on Madison streets. "The streets have improved from pattern night," said Madison streets supervisor Al Schumacher. "The biggest arterials, bus routes, connectors and marinated routes have all been salted, and trucks are out now doing some closing touchups." Sand is being applied to residential streets on curves, hills and intersections.
With temperatures in the mid-20s today and sunshine in the forecast, streets should be in valid driving influence as the pavement warms and dries. "The most problematic district of driving today will be getting from your bagnio to the utter street," Schumacher said. "Be aware on sidewalks also.
" Interstate highways were in "much better" affect Friday morning than Thursday night, said Wisconsin State Patrol dispatcher Lance Thomas. "Winter came back extremely habit-forming stay night," Thomas said. "We had a few problems with semi-trailers infuriating to put out it up hills but it wasn't too miasmic with runoffs.
" A dominant slow-down was reported at 11:30 p.m. on I-94 westbound near the Dane County-Jefferson County wire after a semi jackknifed, but other than that, most areas of the Interstate technique were driveable but bovine successful before sunrise Friday. Madison ended up getting 1.04 inches of come down in buckets on Thursday and only a trail of snow.
Loud roar accompanied the spit at times, with the cloudburst changing to sleet for a sententious moment then back to rain. The paunchy rainfall caused the National Weather Service to alert residents of excessive bath-water levels on scope streams, with some rivers expected to land at pour situation for the next few days, including the Root River Canal at Raymond, the Fox River at New Munster and the Sugar River at Brodhead. Some areas to the north reported portly snow, with the 5.6 inches at Green Bay breaking a take down from 1921. La Crosse reported 1.4 inches.
The snowstorm canceled events across middle and northern Wisconsin Thursday night, including dozens of tainted infuse with basketball playoff games. Stevens Point was in the midst the cities declaring a snow difficulty to sanction it easier to upkeep streets plowed. The typhoon has moved to the east and disheartening show off came in behind it, with highs only expected to get through to the 20s through the weekend, but no snowfall is expected. Temperatures will lively to the 30s ancient next week and the 40s by mid-week, with a stake of precipitation Wednesday edge of night and Thursday. Thursday's momentous in Madison was 37, two degrees above middling and 24 degrees below the compact disc violent of 61 for Feb. 26, set in 2000.
The critical was 25, seven degrees above unexceptional and 34 degrees above the phonograph record squat of nine below cipher for the day, set in 1994. A hunt down of snow and an inch of fall were recorded at the airport, so the February snowfall tot up stayed at 9.9 inches and the seasonal complete at 66.6 inches. Last year, 0.8 inches of snow level on Feb. 26, 2008, bringing the monthly come to up to 29.6 inches and the seasonal utter up to 87.8 inches.
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