We awoke to find it still snowing and it continued to snow, until we had to vacate the motel at noon. It appeared to be still snowing but weather radar indicated that the precipitation had already passed. At any rate the ground blizzard continued for nearly a hundred miles and we progressed carefully at about 45mph for that entire distance. Near Springfield, IL we stopped for a late lunch and when we got back on the road the sun was out and in a few miles the road got dramatically better and a few miles farther we were suddenly beyond the snow line and the roads were clear and dry. What a joy - I didn't even mind the 20mph cross wind!
We made our way around St Louis around 6pm and I was afraid it was a bad time of day, but I think the I-255 bypass is far enough from the city that traffic was not too bad. We stopped for supper in Herculaneum, MO at a Cracker Barrel restaurant and then made it as far as Cape Girardeau, MO before we stopped for the night.
The cold spell is following us and we still haven't seen a temp greater than 18 degrees. But that is still an improvement over the -9 that it was when we left home.
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