Iowa's seeing a hell of a winter storm now, as it has since Friday afternoon. It's the first time in a very long time I've heard the DOT say travel is not advised.
My folks, who live ten miles away, and some other family that lives in the same city I do are without power, as are about 130,000 people in the state. I'm not sure how much longer I'll have power.
Now that the rain has turned to snow, it's expected that 6 to 12" of the **** will fall by Monday morning. It's a pretty terrible weekend. I couldn't even leave my apartment all day, since my garage door was frozen shut since it faced the wind and rain all night.