SLOW DOWN!

SLIPPERY, SNOW PACKED ROADS

Thursday,  7:30 AM.  -12 degrees F, wind W, calm to gusty.  The sky is overcast and it is foggy, but itseems to be clearing.  The humidity is 74% and the barometer is up, currently at 30.19".
   The extreme cold has rendered many roads, including Hwy, 13, snow covered and slippery.  Blowing and drifting snow becomes packed down by vehicles and next to impossible for plows to scrape down to the roadbed.  The conditions were bad on Hwy, 13 between Bayfield and Washburn yesterday, and not only was the road slippery, but visibility was poor as well. The only practical response to these conditions is to slow down, and hope everyone else does the same.