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Local NewsRoads Quickly Get Slippery, IcyBy Tom MurrayMILWAUKEE - Road conditions rapidly deteriorated in southeastern Wisconsin Friday night. "The snow is picking up and the blowing is picking up," said Sherri Seib, who was driving to Fort Atkinson to drop off her daughter. Scott Borque drove with his family to a relative's house through icy spots and blowing snow. "So far, so good," Borque said while filling up at a Delafield gas station. Holiday travelers made it a crowded Christmas night on I-94. Plows hit the highway heavy with salt. Side streets stayed slick. "The back roads are pretty slippery," explained driver Manuel Garcia. "I was sliding through there, but the main roads right here are pretty good." The state patrol reported that a few cars went into ditches off the interstate in Western Waukesha County, but no major accidents. "Slush and standing water will freeze into solid sheets of ice," the National Weather Service warned in a forecast. "Untreated roads and sideways will become icy and treacherous this evening... a situation sometimes called a flash freeze." The snowy, chilly evening was quite a contrast to Friday's daylight weather. Rainy weather spoiled a white Christmas in neighborhoods near Lake Michigan. Unseasonably warm winter temperatures turned snowy lawns green. "I'd rather have this than the snow," said Dan Lynch, who walked his dogs in the rain Christmas afternoon. "I don't like the shoveling." Meteorologists are predicting snow and temperatures in the high 20s for Saturday.
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