How are you faring with the season’s first major storm?
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The first major snowstorm of the season began its slow eastward march across the Midwest early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, creating treacherous driving conditions and threatening to disrupt some of the nation’s busiest airports ahead of the holiday weekend.
Forecasters warned that heavy snow coupled with strong winds could create blizzard conditions from Kansas to Wisconsin — and guaranteed a white Christmas in some places — after the storm blanketed the Rocky Mountains earlier in the week.
The storm dropped nearly a foot of snow in Des Moines, but the storm wasn’t as dangerous as earlier feared because everyone had good warning of the approaching havoc, said Kevin Skow, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the city. But wind might become a concern, he warned.
“It’s starting to taper off,” Skow said of the snow early Thursday. “It’s soon going to become less of a snow event and more of a wind event.”
How are you faring with the storm so far? Has it created significant problems for you?
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This is Iowa, usually snows here in the winter. Been through storms alot worse than this, this storm is just minor in my opinion. 5 more inches of snow, same wind, and 0 temps would change that.
We have been lucky and never lost power. Only got around 3 in. of snow. As usual, not even close to the doom that Ch. 9 forecast last night. It is getting so bad, that we only watch the weather part of the news for a good laugh.