WEST BEND -
Winter got the jump on Washington County motorists on Monday.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Department reported more than
60 spin-outs, run-offs and fender-benders, said Washington County
Sheriff’s Department Lt. Robert Martin.
"Mass chaos is probably the best way to describe it,"
Martin said.
Between 3 and 6:30 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department had 11
patrolmen, two supervisors and three detectives out handling nothing
but traffic problems, he said. A spin-out in the southbound lane of
Highway 45 had traffic going bumper to bumper between 5 and 6:30
p.m., Martin said.
There wasn’t all that much snow. Local weather observer Ed
Dommisse measured half an inch of the white stuff. An inch of snow
has fallen so far this season, the first of it dusting the ground on
Oct. 27, Dommisse said.
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