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Photo: Jay Olstad Some Wisconsin Roads ImpassableBy Jay SorgiGERMANTOWN - The brunt of the current snowstorm will bring many people to call family, friends, bosses and co-workers and utter these words. "Hi.. uh.. I'm stuck!" Those words came from Newsradio 620 WTMJ's own Jodi Becker as she attempted to leave her home in Germantown. She says she attempted to travel "in about 10 to 12 inches of really, wet heavy snow and I got about a block." She was not alone.
A much-used ramp from I-94 to I-39/90 heading into Madison was closed, as was northbound I-43 in Sheboygan, for parts of the morning. With Jodi's situation, her car was so snow bound before she even tried to start it, that a simple scraper wasn't enough. "I had to shovel off my car. You couldn't brush it off, because I park outside and that took at least a good half hour to 40 minutes," said Jodi. "I thought I would be ok going down the driveway and getting some momentum and as soon as I got to an intersection forget it. Forget it!" Jodi's car was stuck in the middle of an intersection, and she eventually needed about an hour before she could get out of it with the help of others. The snow was up past the bumper of her sedan. "If you have to be out on the roads in Washington County this morning, you'd better have four wheel drive, you'd better have an SUV." |
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