Road crews will work through the night clearing Iowa highways
Iowa Department of Transportation
AMES, Iowa – Feb. 2, 2011; 5 p.m. update – Road crews continue to make progress following the massive winter storm that closed roads yesterday, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on southeast Iowa, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT).
Overnight tonight, bitter cold winds follow recent heavy snowfalls. A wind chill advisory is set to take effect for the central part of the state beginning at midnight tonight through 10 a.m. Thursday. A north wind at 15 to 25 mph will switch to the west by midnight and then southwest by 6 a.m. Although winds are expected to diminish, overnight lows will drop to between 5 and 10 below zero with wind chills of 15 to 25 below through mid-morning Thursday. While much progress has been made clearing Iowa roads, motorists should still use caution due to the frigid temperatures.
Roads remaining closed
U.S. 6 – Pottawattamie County (Council Bluffs to Oakland)
U.S. 52 – Dubuque County (Holy Cross to Luxemburg)
Iowa 44 – Guthrie County (U.S. 169 to Panora)
Iowa 83 – Pottawattamie and Cass counties (Walnut to Marne)
Iowa 130 – Cedar County (Cedar County Road X-64, near Tipton to New Liberty)
Iowa 130 – Scott County (I-80 to Scott County Road Y-30)
Iowa 175 – Grundy and Black Hawk counties (Grundy Center to Reinbeck)
Roads reopened since the last update
U.S. 6 – Pottawattamie and Cass counties (Oakland to Iowa 48)
U.S. 6 – Johnson and Muscatine counties (Iowa City to West Liberty)
U.S. 218 – Black Hawk and Benton counties (La Porte City to Iowa 8)
U.S. 18 – Fayette County (Fayette County Road V-48, near Fredericksburg to County Road W-14, near Hawkeye)
U.S. 18 – Fayette County (between mileposts 252 and 263, near West Union)
U.S. 18 – Fayette County (between mileposts 241 to 250, near Oelwein)
U.S. 20 – Black Hawk County (milepost 243 to 244)
Iowa 2 – Wayne and Appanoose counties (Corydon to Centerville)
Iowa 3 – Plymouth County (Plymouth County Road K-18 to K-22)
Iowa 3 – Fayette County (Fayette County Road V-62 to Iowa 150, approximately 5 miles west of Oelwein)
Iowa 9 – Emmet County (Armstrong to Estherville)
Iowa 22 – Washington and Muscatine counties (Nichols to Kalona)
Iowa 25 – Guthrie County (Interstate 80 to Guthrie Center)
Iowa 38 – Jones County (Monticello to Iowa 64)
Iowa 58 (27) – Black Hawk County (Cedar Falls to Hudson)
Iowa 78 – Henry and Washington counties (U.S. 218 to Brighton)
Iowa 92 – Washington and Louisa counties (West Chester to Columbus Junction)
Iowa 128 – Clayton County (Iowa 13/Elkader to Iowa 52/Granavillo)
Iowa 136 – Clinton County (Clinton to U.S. 61)
Iowa 175 – Hamilton and Hardin counties (Ellsworth to Hubbard)
Iowa 175 – Black Hawk counties (Grundy Center to Reinbeck)
Road condition information
Information on road conditions and closures is available from a number of sources including www.iowadot.gov, www.511ia.org and on Twitter by following the Iowa DOT at http://twitter.com/iowadot.
Source: IDOT
