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To: Joe NYC who wrote (20677)	1/2/1999 10:54:00 PM
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O.T. - AP News' story on snowy weather in Midwest. January 2, 1999 Snow, Ice Shut Down Midwest Travel Filed at 8:57 p.m. EST By The Associated Press A huge snowstorm blew across the Midwest on Saturday with whiteout conditions and drifts up to 8 feet high, canceling hundreds of airline flights, forcing motorists off roads and keeping mail deliverers from their appointed rounds. ''I knew it was going to be here one way or another,'' said snowplow driver Kerry Morris in Des Moines, Iowa. By Saturday evening, the storm had dumped 17 inches at Chicago's Midway Airport, 11 inches of snow had fallen on Coldwater, Mich., and 8 inches on Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus. It was 13 inches deep in western Indiana's Parke County, and 10 inches of new snow had fallen in southwestern Ohio and Eldora, Iowa. Wind gusting to 40 mph created blizzard conditions and northern Indiana's LaGrange County pulled its plows off the roads because snow was drifting 5 to 8 feet deep. Icy roads contributed to more than a half-dozen deaths throughout the region. ''It's nasty. I wouldn't want to have to go out,'' Vickie Berkey said from her home near Angola, Ind. ''There's a drift in front of the garage and it just keeps getting bigger.'' More than 50 of Indiana's counties and cities declared snow emergencies, banning unnecessary travel; Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon declared a less-restrictive statewide snow emergency. ''The roads are impassable,'' said Pam Bright of the Indiana Emergency Management Agency. The Postal Service even quit delivering mail in the Indianapolis area. Rain, slush and freezing temperatures made it too dangerous for carriers to walk their routes, said Postmaster Mike Lamborne. Many Chicagoans said the storm brought back memories of the ''Blizzard of '79,'' which dumped about 19 inches of snow on the city and other parts of Illinois. Mayor Richard M. Daley said more than 700 pieces of snow-fighting equipment would be deployed. The city's delay in plowing away the 1979 snowfall was blamed for Jane Byrne's upset victory over incumbent Mayor Michael Bilandic in the Democratic primary. Thousands of travelers found themselves without a ride as hundreds of flights through major Midwest airports were called off. ''It's been crazy, extremely hectic, madness,'' said Sara Shillito, a worker at a coffee shop in Ohio's Port Columbus International Airport, where one of the two runways was shut down. ''Lots and lots of people, waiting around, walking around.'' TWA canceled nearly 400 morning flights at St. Louis, its main hub. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, American canceled all flights through midnight Saturday and United shut down everything after midafternoon. United spokesman Matt Triaca said anyone planning to fly out of O'Hare should wait until Monday -- or Tuesday. That set up more delays and cancellations elsewhere across the country, including Denver and New York City's three major airports. Northwest Airlines shut down about 150 flights systemwide and Delta canceled dozens of flights to the Midwest. Detroit's Metropolitan Airport planned to stay open through the storm, said spokesman Mike Conway. Crews shut down one of the three runways at a time to clear away snow, while thousands of travelers inside the terminal scrambled to rebook canceled flights. Even hardy Minnesotans were grounded by the weather. The University of Minnesota basketball team's game at Purdue was called off because of the weather at West Lafayette, Ind., and the team was stuck at a hotel in Indianapolis because the city's airport closed. All trips out of the Greyhound Bus station in Milwaukee were canceled Saturday. One of the stranded travelers was 20-year-old Frank Ramos, who had ridden a bus from New York City and was trying to get to Appleton, Wis., 100 miles north of Milwaukee, to give his girlfriend an engagement ring and meet her parents. ''I'm trying to have a good attitude,'' Ramos said. ''I don't know when I'm going to get there. If I have to go walking I probably will.'' Blizzard conditions resulted in two car pileups on Wisconsin highways Saturday, killing one person. A 10-year-old Iowa boy was killed Friday when he sledded in front of a truck. Two people were killed in car accidents in Missouri on Friday. Nebraska and Arkansas each had two storm-related traffic deaths Friday. Illinois had one storm-related death. Freezing rain along the southern edge of the storm pulled down power lines in Arkansas and some 58,000 customers were in the dark Saturday, down from more than 100,000 the night before. Utilities said more than 11,000 customers lost power during the morning in northern Illinois, with widespread outages in other parts of the state, and some 3,000 were blacked out in Indiana. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company