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The January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard was a significant and expansive winter weather event that produced blizzard conditions across the High Plains, [2] as well as a long swath of accumulating snow and ice storm to the eastern half of the United States in early January 2025.
Freezing rain and ice began coating surfaces in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri on Saturday, creating dangerous travel conditions along roadways and at airports. Troopers reported responding to ...
For 2011, the population of Missouri was reported as 6,010,688. Source: FBI 2011 UCR data: In 2016 there were 202,193 crimes reported in the U.S. state of Missouri, ...
One of Thomas Jefferson's goals was to find "the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." He also placed special importance on declaring US sovereignty over the land occupied by the many different Native American tribes along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.
A wide area of freezing rain created dangerous travel conditions in the Midwest and Plains Saturday morning with dozens of crashes reported, and hours-long closures of major interstates.
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Comparing motorways (controlled-access, divided highways) in Europe and the United States, according to 2012 data, Denmark had the safest motorways with a rate of 0.72 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km, while the United States had 3.38 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km on its Interstate-type highways, often called freeways. [27]
What made the storm so deadly was the timing (during work and school hours), the suddenness, and the brief spell of warmer weather that preceded it. In addition, the very strong wind fields behind the cold front and the powdery nature of the snow reduced visibilities on the open plains to zero.