It was billed as "flurries", but soon became a snowfall that tangled up metro Omaha traffic long past clock-in time at work.
It was billed as "flurries", but soon became a surprise snow that tangled up metro Omaha traffic long past clock-in time at work.
Commuters trying to get downtown were soon dissuaded as Interstates 80 and 680 slowed as the snow picked up. Traffic backed up from 42nd Street to Giles Road, and Omaha police went on accident alert, no longer responding to non-injury wreck and concentrating on get the main routes moving.
Stalwart Sarpy County drivers were barely crawling, as a bunch of crashes along the Kennedy Freeway choked off traffic there.
Some parts of the metro got as much as an inch of snow.
