In a Facebook post, the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department cautioned drivers to stay off the road, saying experienced officers were describing the blizzard using terms like “worst storm ever.” Many highways across the region were covered in ice or snow on Sunday, according to the state Department of Transportation. “It’s actually kind of amazing,” he said. “We had 15 flights leave yesterday in the middle of this thing and we’re going to have 20 flights go out today in this blizzard,” Tracey said. ![]() Two departing flights Sunday morning were delayed, but the airport’s website shows other flights left on time. He believed four flights were canceled by the airlines on Saturday and one on Sunday as of about 8 a.m. The cancellations typically happen because of problems at the hub airports, and the hub airports affected by this blizzard are Minneapolis and Chicago.” “We are open, our runways are open,” Pat Tracey, the airport’s marketing director, said Sunday morning. Numerous inbound and outbound flights at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay also were canceled Sunday.Īt Appleton International Airport, which did not take as direct of a hit as Green Bay, plow drivers worked all weekend to keep runways open and functioning. The heavy snow and strong winds caused power outages throughout the region over the weekend, and several roof collapses were reported around Green Bay on Sunday. RELATED: Blizzard pushes back start of Packers' offseason program View Playlist: Huge Wisconsin snowstorm puts spring on hold RELATED: Fox River water levels rise as ice, wind raise risk of flooding RELATED: Winter storm set to shatter record for April snow Many churches canceled Sunday morning services, while at least one pastor said he would stream mass live on Facebook. Wind gusts were estimated to reach 50 miles per hour and cause whiteout conditions with the possibility of localized flooding along the Green Bay and Lake Michigan shoreline. The blizzard warning was canceled early Sunday evening and replaced with winter weather advisories ![]() The National Weather Service expected the storm, which started Friday evening, would linger into Sunday night and bring with it more snow, sleet and freezing rain. "It's probably going to go in the record books as a historic April snowstorm," Eckberg said. ![]() The storm set snowfall records in Green Bay, Appleton and Wausau, according to Roy Eckberg of the National Weather Service. View Gallery: Spring blizzard blankets Wisconsin | April 15 photosĪn unprecedented spring blizzard continued to bear down on northeastern and central Wisconsin on Sunday, wreaking havoc on roads, causing roofs to collapse and prompting churches to cancel services.
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