SO
SO GLAD
SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US ON A SNOWY AND SLUSHY MORNING. YES, THERE ARE IN FACT NEARLY
TWO DOZEN COUNTIES UNDER SNOW
EMERGENCY AND ALL OF THIS THE
COUNTIES YOU SEE IN YELLOW AND
FRANKLIN COUNTY INCLUDED THERE,
THOSE ARE COUNTIES UNDER LEVEL
ONE WHICH MEANS THE ROADS ARE
ICY AND HAZARDOUS.
SO IF YOU HAVE TO SHOUTOUT BE
CAREFUL THE COUNTIES IN ORANGE
TAKE NO COSHOCTON AND MORGAN
THE THREAT LEVEL TWO AND THAT
MEANS YOU REALLY SHOULD ONLY BE
DRIVING IF IT'S NECESSARY AND
THERE ARE PLENTY OF SCHOOL
CLOSINGS THIS MORNING TO
STUDENTS FROM LOGAN HAWKING
LOCAL SCHOOLS HEAT CITY SCHOOLS
AND TREE AND LOCAL AND HIGHLAND
LOCAL SCHOOLS WILL NOT HAVE
CLASS TODAY SO THEY CAN PLAY
OUT THERE IN THE SNOW AND THAT
FULL LIST IS SCROLLING AT THE
BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN WE HAVE
TEAM COVERAGE OF THE SNOW AND
THE ICE THIS MORNING HERE ON
WAKE UP SEABASS MOLLY IS
TRACKING ROAD CONDITIONS MOST
VULNERABLE WORKERS AND KRISTA
FROST ARE OUR BOOTS ON THE
GROUND GETTING A LIVE LOOK AT
THE SNOWY CONDITIONS IN YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE HAVE TWO
METEOROLOGISTS HERE THIS
MORNING.
ROB CARUSO AND JEFF BOOTH ARE
IN STUDIO TRACKING THE
FORECAST.
SO FIRST LET'S START WITH JEFF
BLUDUF TO SEE WHAT WE SHOULD BE
WORRYING ABOUT AS WE HEAD OUT
THIS MORNING AND LATER TODAY.
WELL, I JUST BE WORRIED THERE'S
A MONDAY.
I MEAN THAT'S TRUE OUTSIDE
WE GOT TO WATCH OUT FOR SOME
SLICK SPOTS.
SO THE SNOW WE HAVE THIS
MORNING IS NOWHERE NEAR
COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD
YESTERDAY MORNING, WHICH IS
GOOD NEWS BECAUSE WE GOT
YESTERDAY OR TODAY RATHER
WE SAW YESTERDAY WE'D BE
TALKING ABOUT A HUGE MESS ON
THE ROADS BUT STILL WE'VE GOT
ENOUGH THAT WE'VE GOT SOME
REFREEZE.
WE'VE ALSO GOT A LITTLE LIGHT
SNOW COMING BACK IN.
YOU CAN SEE THAT UP THROUGH
WYANDOT INTO CRAWFORD, RICHLAND
COUNTIES, MANSFIELD DOWN INTO
MOUNT VERNON LOOKING AT SOME
LIGHT SNOW.
SAME STORY IN GIULIA'S ACTUALLY
NOT GOING AT IT WITH SOME
HEAVIER SNOW RIGHT NOW.
AND AS WE TAKE LOOK ELSEWHERE
YOU CAN SEE THAT AS WE MOVE ON
INTO THE COLUMBUS AREA WE ARE
TRACKING A LITTLE BIT OF THAT
STEADIER SNOW JUST OUT THROUGH
GAHANNA INTO PATASKALA EAST OF
THE CITY AND OUT INTO
PICKERINGTON AS WELL.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT
SOME OF THAT SNOW YOU MOVE ON
DOWN INTO SOUTHERN AND
SOUTHEASTERN OHIO SO WE'RE NOT
DONE WITH IT JUST YET AND IT
LOOKS LIKE WE CAN SEE ON OUR
NICE WEATHER BUG NETWORK CAMERA
WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF
REDUCED VISIBILITY TO A FEW
FLURRIES MID TO UPPER 20S AND
LOW 30S FOR THE CURRENT
TEMPERATURES.
BUT IT FEELS MORE LIKE THE MID
TO UPPER TEENS AND LOW 20S SO
COLD AT THE BUS STOP WITH A
LITTLE LIGHT SNOW WE'LL KEEP
SOME LIGHT OFF AND ON SNOW
AROUND THROUGHOUT THE DAY AGAIN
ADDITIONAL INCH OR SO HERE IN
HTOWN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A
HIGH OF THIRTY THREE BUT IT
WILL FEEL LIKE WE ARE IN THE
LOW 20S.
THE WIND IS GOING TO BE PRETTY
BREEZY OUT THERE TODAY.
WE'LL LET YOU KNOW THOUGH WHEN
WARMER WEATHER ARRIVES AND WHAT
TIME ALL THE SNOW MOVES OUT OF
HERE COMING UP MOLLY BUT RIGHT
NOW IS WATCHING THE ROADS
THOUGH AND SHE SAYS THINGS ARE
STARTING TO GET A LITTLE
BUSIER.
YEAH, JUST GETTING BUSY AND
IT'S JUST PAST 6:00 O'CLOCK.
SO THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW THAT
YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME DICEY
CONDITIONS OUT ON THE ROADWAYS.
A COUPLE CRASHES OUT THERE
AGAIN, UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER
OF YOUR SCREEN FLASHING LIGHTS
THAT SEM NORTHBOUND WHERE IT
MEETS ONE SIXTY ONE ON THE EAST
SIDE HEADS UP YOU CAN GET PAST
THAT CRASH ON THE RIGHT BUT
TRAFFIC MOVING A LITTLE SLOW
THAT WAY.
WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER CRASH.
IT LOOKS LIKE OUR CAMERA TURNED
IT TO 70 AND 70 ON THE EAST
SIDE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF
YOUR SCREEN BUT HEADED
SOUTHBOUND THERE IS A CRASH
THERE AND I DO SEE SNOW FALLING
IN THE AREA.
SO AGAIN SOME OF THAT DRIFTING
SNOW COULD BE AN ISSUE ALONG
WITH THOSE TWO EAST OUTER BELT
CRASHES.
WE'VE GOT A CRASH ON SEVENTY
ONE NORTHBOUND AT THE EXIT RAMP
TO NORTH BROADWAY.
WE ARE SEEING DELAYS THERE
BECAUSE OF IT.
TRAFFIC MOVING 40 MILES AN HOUR
RIGHT NOW ON SEVENTY ONE THERE
NEAR NORTH BROADWAY.
TWENTY NINE MILES AN HOUR ON
SIXTY TWO BETWEEN JOHNSTOWN AND
ALBANY AND FORTY ONE MILES AN
HOUR AND 40 TO HEADED TOWARD
PLAIN CITY.
SO A COUPLE OF OUR OTHER
ROADWAYS OUT THERE ARE STARTING
TO SLOW DOWN ON US AS MORE
PEOPLE HEAD OUT THE DOOR.
I KNOW LAURA BALTAR'S HAS BEEN
OUT ON THE ROADWAYS ALL MORNING
LONG.
LAURA, WHERE ARE YOU CHECKING
OUT RIGHT NOW?
WELL, WE ARE NOW IN DELAWARE
COUNTY BUT WE'RE FIGHTING THE
FRANKLIN COUNTY VERY NEAR THAT
ONE COUNTY LEVEL ONE NO
EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW.
AND WHAT WE'VE NOTICED
ESPECIALLY REVISH TRAVELING
ALONG 36 IS A LOT OF SMOKE
BILLOWING.
A LOT OF SNOW IS GOING ON HERE.
IT'S LIKE SOME SOME WALK OUT
DOING THE SAME ROADS A LITTLE
BIT BUT WE'VE GOT SOME PRETTY
GOOD TRACTION.
THAT'S NOT THE CASE NOT
FACTORED INTO WHY YOU SEE THE
COUNTY STILL NO EMERGIENCES
KEEP OPEN UP BECAUSE IT'S LIKE
BUT AND THE ONLY THING LIKE I
SAID A LITTLE BIT IN THE
FRANKLIN COUNTY I'M GOING TO
GIVE YOU A FEW LITTLE FURTHER
UP IN 30 MINUTES.
I THOUGHT THINGS WERE NOW YOU
KNOW, LOOK WHERE YOU ARE.
YEAH.
LOGAN COUNTY RIGHT NOW STILL
WATCHING A LITTLE BIT OF
BLOWING AND DRIFTING.
FORTUNATELY THOUGH, DEALTH IS
STARTING TO COME TO LIGHT SNOW
BUT LEFT BEHIND JUST PILES AND
PILES AND MOUNDS OF SNOW THAT
EXIST HERE.
THIS IS FROM THE WEEKEND THAT
THEY ENDED UP PLOWING OVER.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE STREETS
HERE, WE ARE STARTING TO SEE
SOME PROGRESSION IN THE SALT
BEING LAID ON THE GROUND.
LET ME SHOW YOU THE VIDEO WHAT
IT LOOK LIKE HERE WHEN
WE ARRIVED AND THIS WAS JUST
ABOUT TWO O'CLOCK THREE O'CLOCK
IN THE MORNING WHEN WE ARRIVED
HERE IN LOGAN COUNTY.
IT WAS VERY SLOW GETTING UP
HERE BECAUSE WE DID NOTICE THAT
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW ON
THE ROADWAYS AS WELL AS A
LITTLE BIT OF ICE.
AND BY THE TIME WE GOT INTO THE
DOWNTOWN AREA, BELLE FOUND
EVERYTHING WAS COVERED THE
ROADWAYS, THE SIDEWALKS AND
AGAIN WE WERE EVEN SEEING SOME
OF THAT DRIFTING THAT EXISTED
HERE IN BELLTOWN.
SO IT'S A LEVEL ONE.
SNOWBIRDS AND THSI OBVIOUSLY
TAKE IT VERY SLOW IF YOU'RE
HEADING OUT IN THIS COUNTY.
I WANT TO BRING YOU BACK HERE
TO IF I CAN SHOW YOU LIVE
BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SNOWING
IT'S A LIGHTER SNOW NOW BUT IT
HAS BEEN SNOWING HERE FOR THE
PAST HOUR AND A HALF,