In southern Webster County, a vehicle collided with a snow plow, but there were no serious injuries reported.

Air travel at Fort Dodge Regional Airport returned to nearly normal levels Monday, however.

A power outage impacted a small area of Fort Dodge Monday morning.

Icy roads

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Dylan Runnells, with Mid-Iowa Towing, prepares to pull a pickup truck out of the westbound ditch on U.S. Highway 20 at Paragon Avenue Monday afternoon. Overnight snow left the road covered with ice. Runnells said he'd spent the day pulling vehicles out. The drifting snow is about four feet deep where he's standing. Yes, the driver had gone into the ditch further east and then attempted to drive out.

U.S. Highway 20 was “kind of a mess” Monday, according to Webster County Emergency Management Coordinator Dylan Hagen.

“We’ve had a ton of cars on 20 and a couple on 169 that are going into the ditch because it is pure ice,” he said, referring to U.S. Highway 169.

The collision between a Webster County snow plow and another vehicle happened at 320th Street and Paragon Avenue near Burnside.

County Engineer Jamie Johll said there were no serious injuries as a result of the crash. He said the truck was not badly damaged.

Johll said there were slick spots on paved roads throughout the county, and all of the road crews were out working.

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The snow that fell Sunday night into Monday morning made for difficult driving both in and outside of Fort Dodge. Drivers along Fifth Avenue South, just west of the Webster County Road P59 turn, were still navigating through ice, snow and gravel Monday afternoon.

“We’re out there getting salt and sand down as fast as we can,” he said.

County road crews were to begin working again at 4 a.m. today.

In Fort Dodge, many roads were snow-covered, but no significant crashes were reported.

“You can go where you need to go; you just need to take it slow,” Public Works Director Brett Daniel said.

He said with temperatures predicted to rise, city crews will become more aggressive with snow removal efforts. Daniel said they were to begin cleaning out all the accumulated snow downtown early this morning.

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A wedge of untouched overnight snow makes a triangle in Paragon Avenue at the intersection with 290th Street in Webster County. Sunday night to Monday morning snow made many roads treacherous.

Flights resume

Snow was plowed off the runways of Fort Dodge Regional Airport Monday morning, and United Express flights resumed.

The noon flight from Chicago O’Hare International Airport was 10 minutes late, and the late afternoon flight was expected to be on time, according to Rhonda Chambers, the airport’s director of aviation.

Poor visibility caused by blowing snow had effectively shut down the airport late last week, even though the runways were clear of snow.

Power outage

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen
Dylan Runnells, with Mid-Iowa Towing, prepares to pull a pickup truck out of the westbound ditch on U.S. Highway 20 at Paragon Avenue Monday afternoon. Overnight snow left the road covered with ice. Runnells said he'd spent the day pulling vehicles out.

Some residents along Williams Drive in Fort Dodge were hit with a two-hour power outage Monday morning.

The outage impacted just 15 customers, according to Geoff Greenwood, a spokesman for MidAmerican Energy.

He said it started at 6:31 a.m. and lasted exactly two hours. He said it was weather-related.