Snow and Slush Scenes

January 31, 2009

Cairo to Charleston to Chaffee to Cape. Photos from the ice-laden and snow-sodden southern Illinois and southeast Missouri region.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com A utility pole bends under the weight of ice Friday, January 30, 2009, along Highway JJ near Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Birds take flights Friday morning, January 30, 2009, in Cairo.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Gwen Napier, from left, Kathy Garrard, Crystal Foster and Nancy Burton prepare meals Friday, January 30, 2009, at the First Baptist Church warming center in Charleston, where they have been serving well over 100 people a day. Christina Pendergrass, front, awaits a serving of spaghetti.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Icicles near Charleston on Friday, January 30, 2009.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com More than ten utility poles lie in a row after snapping under the weight of ice near Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Ice caused major destruction to many areas of historic Cairo, Ill.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Cairo city councilman Lorenzo Nelson clears roads with a piece of city machinery Friday morning, January 30, 2009, in Cairo.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Makayala Fennell, 8, checks with her cousin Marquelis Andrews, 12, before making a move in chess Friday, January 30, 2009, while spending time at the First Baptist Church warming center in Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com The ice-laden entrance to Cairo's Historic Park District.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Commerce Street seeming like a war zone Friday, January 30, 2009, in Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com David Burton, left, eats lunch while his children Daniel, 7, and Emily, 13, play the boardgame Sorry with Ed Wood Friday, January 30, 2009, at the First Baptist Church warming center in Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com RJ Suggs, 16, opts for the floor instead of cots for a nap Friday afternoon, January 30, 2009, at the First Baptist Church warming center in Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Crossing from Cairo to Missouri on US 62.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com David Herbst voluntarily clears driveways along US 77 Friday, January 30, 2009, in Chaffee.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Crews work Friday morning, January 30, 2009, in Cairo.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com A downed utility pole near at an intersection near Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Ice damage Friday, January 30, 2009, in Cairo, Ill.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Crews clear a road Friday, January 30, 2009, near Thebes, Il.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Low-hanging utility lines block the drive to a barn near Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com An atv meanders through destruction to old town Cairo Friday morning, January 30, 2009.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Neel Owens, center, awaits to go meals as Crystal Foster, left, and Kathy Garrard fill orders Friday, January 30, 2009, at the First Baptist Church warming center in Chaleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com People pass time in a variety of ways at the warming center housed at the First Baptist Church in Charleston.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com A sculpture became an ice sculture in Cairo.

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Cairo to Charleston to Chaffee to Cape. Photos from the ice-laden and snow-sodden southern Illinois and southeast Missouri region.

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