(KNSI) — The blizzard is gone, but bad road conditions remain in several areas of the state.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation says areas from Fargo up to the Canadian border to International Falls down to Ely through Virginia, Grand Rapids, and Fergus Falls are partly to mostly covered with snow. Roughly the southern third of the state from Marshall through Redwood Falls and Faribault down toward Rochester, Austin, and over to the South Dakota border are still slick and snow covered. Even some roads in the western part of the Twin Cities are reportedly icy.
The Minnesota State Patrol says between Wednesday, December 21st, from 6:00 a.m. through 11:30 a.m. Christmas Eve day, it responded to more than 1,600 crashes with 138 injury crashes, but no crashes were considered serious or fatal, 1,400 spinouts or vehicles off the road, and at least ten jackknifed semis.
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