Snow in Northern Illinois leaves cars stuck on roads

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Heavy snow greeted residents in Northern Illinois as they awoke Friday morning. Crews worked to clean up city streets and highways, but many drivers still faced difficult travel.

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00:00 Well, the heavy wet snow of Friday has been replaced with bitter cold and

00:05 Accuweather real field temperatures dropping below zero. The snow that fell

00:10 on Friday was heavy. It came down at rates that were quite amazing

00:14 sometimes to see causing some travel issues, but fortunately not as bad as it

00:19 could have been

00:19 heavy snow greeted most folks in northern Illinois as they wake in

00:26 Friday morning here in Rockford, crews were already out in force working city

00:29 streets while area highways were on the top of the list for crews to keep clear.

00:33 These snowflakes are the size of ping pong balls. These things are huge. Snow

00:39 rates across the region top 2 to 3 inches per hour at times, but

00:42 temperatures near the ground hovering just a hair above freezing kept most of

00:46 the treated roadways just wet and slushy. But despite the better than could

00:50 have been road conditions, not all drivers had an easy go of it. You can

00:53 barely see it back there, but we were hydroplaning and kind of lost control

00:59 and got stuck in here. We almost got out

01:01 and then got ourselves stuck again. We're hopefully having a pickup truck

01:08 try and drag us out. Our combined efforts helped get him out of the snow,

01:12 but others in more difficult situations were left waiting for bigger help to

01:15 arrive. As night fell, snow tapered into flurries, but bitter cold air turned

01:19 some roads very slick, keeping crews busy well into the night, assisting

01:23 drivers who found themselves wandering off the pavement. Light snow and gusty

01:26 winds continued overnight, giving way to a little sun and a whole lot of cold

01:31 early on Saturday.

01:32 Areas here in northern Illinois will catch a break from the snow, but the

01:36 cold is really going to take hold as we see temperatures tonight dropping below

01:41 zero. Those actual weather real feels could be dropping anywhere from 15 to

01:45 25 below zero. So bitter arctic air in place a little bit of light snow

01:50 possible as we get later into the weekend out here, but the heavy, heavy

01:54 accumulating snow moved on out and folks here will enjoy a little bit of

01:58 sunshine on your Saturday reporting from Rockford, Illinois for Accuweather.

02:02 I'm meteorologist Tony law back.

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