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Saturday 10 February 2018

Snow falling across upper Midwest leaves roads treacherous

CHICAGO (AP) — A winter more than 2 inches in the
storm moving across the Detroit area.
Great Lakes that's forecast Hank Stawasz was out shov-
to drop about a foot (1/3 eling his driveway by hand,
meter) of snow in some ar- clearing a path for the re-
eas created treacherous tiree to exit his home in the
driving conditions Friday, Detroit suburb of Livonia.
closed schools and forced "It's part of living in Michi-
the cancellation of hun- gan," a smiling Stawasz said
dreds of flights. from underneath his Detroit
The National Weather Ser- Red Wings winter hat. "I saw
vice issued winter-weather the plows come by, so I fig-
warnings and advisories ured I'd get a jump on it so
across the upper Midwest. I wouldn't have to shovel it
The snow that began fall- when it's 4 feet high."
ing late Thursday afternoon About 750 flights were can-
was expected to continue celed at Chicago's O'Hare
through Friday as the storm International Airport and
moves east. about 300 flights were
In Chicago, Mayor Rahm canceled at Midway, the
Emanuel said the city was Chicago Department of
gearing up for three more Aviation reported Friday
rounds of snow through the morning. More than 200
weekend after crews dealt Vehicles rest along the snowbound shoulder along Interstate 94, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, near Gales- flights were canceled at
with 6 to 7 inches overnight. burg, Mich., after scores of vehicles were involved in an accident. Detroit Metropolitan Airport
"The good news is we're (Mark Bugnaski/Kalamazoo Gazette/AP) in Romulus, Michigan, by
tried and tested here," he early Friday.
said. "We're up to it." tween 9 and 11 inches (23 inches were reported in Snow across southern and Schools across Nebraska
As of Friday morning, the to 28 centimeters) of snow parts of northern Illinois and central Michigan ranged and Iowa closed or de-
National Weather Service over a 24-hour period in in New Carlisle in northern from 7 inches on the west- layed the start of classes.
received reports of be- Fort Dodge, Iowa. Eight Indiana. ern side of the state to q

Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu

By MIKE STOBBE grip on the U.S. This season ago. and was widespread in for three weeks with high
NEW YORK (AP) — The flu is now as bad as the swine A government report out many states in December. fever and fluid in her lungs.
has further tightened its flu epidemic nine years Friday shows 1 of every Early last month, it hit what She said she hadn't been
13 visits to the doctor last seemed like peak levels, this sick from the flu since
week was for fever, cough but then continued to the 1960s, when she was a
and other symptoms of the surge. young mother who couldn't
Paradise in the Caribbean flu. That ties the highest The season has been driven get out of bed to go to the
level seen in the U.S. during by a nasty type of flu that crib of her crying baby.
swine flu in 2009. tends to put more people "It was like 'Wham!' It was
And it surpasses every win- in the hospital and cause bad. It was awful," she said
ter flu season since 2003, more deaths than other of the illness that hit her on
when the government more common flu bugs. But Christmas Day.
changed the way it mea- its long-lasting intensity has Heather Jossi, a 40-year-old
sures flu. surprised experts, who are Denver police officer and
"I wish that there were bet- still sorting out why it's been avid runner, said her illness
ter news this week, but al- so bad. One possibility is last month was the worst flu
most everything we're look- that the vaccine is doing she's experienced.
ing at is bad news," said an unusually poor job; U.S. "I don't remember aches
Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting data on effectiveness is ex- this bad. Not for four days,"
director of the Centers for pected next week. Some said Jossi. "It took me out."
Disease Control and Pre- doctors say this is the worst Albertson said she got a flu
vention. flu season they've seen in shot, Jossi did not.
Flu season usually takes decades. Some patients Last week, 43 states had
off in late December and are saying that, too. Veda high patient traffic for the
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