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Weather Alert

Weather Alert

...The Flood Warning continues for the following river and locations
in Indiana...Illinois...

Wabash River from Lafayette downstream to Mount Carmel.

.Following the heavy rain last week, the Wabash River from Lafayette
southward remains in flood, and flooding will last as long as into
mid to late week next week.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

Even 6 inches of fast-moving flood water can knock you off your feet
and a depth of 2 feet will float your car. Never try to walk, swim,
or drive through such swift water. If you come upon flood waters,
stop, turn around and go another way.

Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/ind.

The next statement should be issued Thursday afternoon by around 200
PM EDT /100 PM CDT/.

&&

...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE SATURDAY EVENING...

* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.

* WHERE...Wabash River at Lafayette.

* WHEN...Until late Saturday evening.

* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet, Water may approach a couple low county
roads.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 10:30 PM EDT Wednesday the stage was 13.2 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 10:30 PM EDT Wednesday was 13.7 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late Saturday morning and continue falling and remain below
flood stage.
- Flood stage is 11.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

&&

Prep work in progress ahead of winter storm

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Snow plow
By: Gordon Jackson

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — The City of Lafayette said it is one step ahead of the incoming winter storm. Dry weather Monday and Tuesday allowed crews to pretreat roads with saltwater. Employees from several city departments chipped in to help.

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Dan Crowell with the street department said they covered a wide area, including many side streets. With plow drivers busy moving wet snow the next few days, Crowell hopes the briny pretreatment will make their jobs easier.

"We've had a couple good days to get it all down. Hopefully it'll help. We've put more trucks in service to do it. A couple of the other departments are helping out, doing it now. We're covering a lot more area with the brine. We're going to see if that helps out a little bit. We're trying to get into the neighborhoods, a lot of the side streets," said Crowell. "We've been pretreating the roads now for two or three days. I think we're in pretty good shape. We've got plenty of product, salt, to put down. We're ready to go."

Public Works Director Ben Anderson said the wet, heavy snow set to fall on Wednesday is going to be hard to move. He says it has historically taken about 8 hours after the last snowflake to get the streets cleaned up.

And with snow forecasted for the rest of the work week it will be a challenge.

West Lafayette has 14 snow plows. Four of them will be on call throughout the night Tuesday into Wednesday.

"We've got multiple events coming and we're trying to be a little bit strategic about how we can stay and stay up on being able to keep things going and fighting what weather and mother nature's going to give us," said Anderson .

Anderson says West Lafayette has about 250 miles of road to clear and Lafayette has between 500 and 600. Tippecanoe County has 800.

Officials are asking drivers to stay at home if possible to allow snow plow drivers to do their jobs. They also encourage people to not park their cars in the street during the storm, if possible.

WLFI Chief Meteorologist Chad Evans is forecasting a possible 8 inches of snow over the next day.

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