Snow Emergencies Remain in Effect

Several communities in the Q101 area remain under snow emergencies this morning. In Whitley County, travel is prohibited for all but emergency vehicles. Wabash and Huntington Counties have advised drivers to travel at their own risk. And the town of North Manchester has prohibited parking along designated snow emergency routes. According to the National Weather Service, the weekend snow storm dropped from eight to more than 16 inches of snow in the Q101 area. Some of the deepest accumulations were in Kosciusko, Whitley and Noble Counties. Meteorologists at the Weather Service office near North Webster measured 16-point-three inches. Trained spotters measured 13 inches in Warsaw and a foot in Columbia City. The storm is getting the blame for a crash near Indianapolis that killed a mother and her three daughters. The woman lost control of her family’s van and it slid into a retaining pond. On the Indiana Toll Road near La Porte, a semi jackknifed and crashed into an Indiana State Trooper’s car. At last report, the trooper was in serious condition.