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Cold Weather * USA - Causing Problems on Roads
Continued frigid temperatures across the Plains states, Midwest and East Coast are causing problems and hazards on roadways, and snow was forecast in some regions of the Midwest for Tuesday
USA -TTNews -2/6/2007: -- Ionia County, Mich.’s 29 county-owned diesel-fueled trucks were using biodiesel blends mad up of conventional 10% or 20% soybean oil. To combat a risk of the biodiesel “jelling,” the county has stored its fleet indoors in cold weather... Temperatures in the upper Midwest have been 20 degrees below zero or colder, and problems were not just with vehicles that would not start, but would not stop... AAA Michigan said it had 10,000 service calls over the weekend, a recent record. AAA advised motorists to keep fuel tanks at least half full to avoid freezing... In New England, cold air was causing problems in Boston’s “Big Dig” tunnel system. Icicles, some as long as two feet, were hanging from overheads. Crews were chipping them away, only to have them quickly form again... The New York Thruway was shut down in both directions for 38 miles in western New York from Lackawanna to Dunkirk Sunday because visibility was close to zero and trucks were jackknifing... The Midwest will see snow Tuesday in the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio River Valleys, with the heaviest snows are expected along the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Huntington, W.Va... Snow advisories are posted for portions of North Dakota, eastern Iowa, central Illinois, central Indiana, southwestern Ohio, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky...
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