January 15, 2018

Snow continues in Cape Girardeau

Snow continues Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 in Cape Girardeau.

Fred Lynch and Ben Matthews

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com Alesia Crouch brushes snow off her car Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 on her way to work in Cape Girardeau.

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com Ivan Edwards and Ruger, his golden retriever, frolic in the snow Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 in Cape Girardeau. School was out for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com A city truck plows snow Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 at Main and Themis streets below Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau.

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com Fresh snow Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 covers the description of a mural on the Mississippi River Tales mural on the floodwall in downtown Cape Girardeau. The panel depicts the winter of 1918 when the river was frozen for several weeks. The river was wider and slower in the early 1900s than it is today. Some people actually walked across the frozen surface of the river, and others drove a team and wagon or an automobile across it.

Southeast Missouri State University facilities management employee Tom Bowen plows snow from a lower parking lot at the River Campus on Jan. 15, 2018, in Cape Girardeau.

Snow rests on the shoulders of the Union infantry soldier statue at Ivers Square behind Common Pleas Courthouse Jan. 15, 2018, in Cape Girardeau.

First responders provide emergency medical treatment after a person slipped on a patch of ice along the sidewalk of Broadway on Jan. 15, 2018, in Cape Girardeau.

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Snow continues Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 in Cape Girardeau.

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