Both vehicles and people alike slipped and slid their way through the morning as the listening area was caked in a sheet of ice following freezing rain during the early hours of Tuesday.
While main roads are finally clearing off as of about 9:30 am, some untreated roads, mostly on side streets, private drives, and rural roads, are almost completely impassable.
Burlington Police say no injuries occurred from any of the several dozen minor accidents that happened throughout the morning.
The Des Moines County Sheriff’s department handled several accidents, including one that closed a section of Summer Street. A five-car chain reaction accident on the hill near Spring Lake occurred at around 6:24 this morning. The road was closed while damaged was assessed and sand trucks de-iced the roadway.
A Semi Truck attempting to make it’s way up a hill on Beaverdale Road also caused some headaches as road crews had to shut down stretches of the road in order to sand it down after the semi truck slid down the hill and ended up in a ditch. The road had to be shut down twice in order to deal with the ditched semi.
Some people who stepped outside their doors this morning were met with a terrible fate. Area EMS crews have responded to at least a dozen reports of people slipping and falling on the ice, with injuries ranging from cuts and scrapes to possible broken bones.
