Ice, Sleet Storm Creates Problems Thursday Morning

Things did not get any better with the winter storm overnight. Forecasts had called for freezing rain to switch over to snow, but in most of the Q101 area, that’s not what happened. National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Lashley says a mix of sleet and freezing rain left roads throughout the area in pretty bad shape this morning. If fact, some road crews have noticed roads getting even worse after a plow scrapes off the sleet. Get the latest Indiana State Police road report. Police say drivers seemed to have headed warnings during the storm. Dispatchers did not get nearly as many calls about accidents and slide-offs as they expected… although all jurisdictions report some such calls. The worst storm-related crash appears to have been up in Steuben County, where a woman died in a two-car wreck. Most of the utilities in the area have fared pretty well so far. About 600 Cinergy customers near the Wabash County town of Roann lost power this morning. We also have a report of an outage near the Huntington County town of Warren, but nobody can get through to the R-E-M-C there to get any additional information. Things are a lot worse in Grant County and other areas to the south of the Q101 area.