Motorists on Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada mountains are facing difficult conditions, and traffic backed up due to a significant snowstorm in Soda Springs, California, on Thursday. | NTD Television

**Interstate 80 Accident Update** A Lifestar helicopter was called to the scene to airlift the semi-truck driver to an area hospital. For more information, click link below. https://www.wcsjnews.com/news/local/semi-truck-accident-forces-interstate-80-lane-closures-near-minooka/article_3992bafc-40bf-4ae3-86ab-2f37b0375347.html | WCSJ Radio Morris,IL The Voice of Grundy County

Interstate 80 Westbound, 6:12 a.m. – Invisible Ice Apocalypse. It looked harmless at first: just another gray, slushy dawn with a few lazy snowflakes drifting down. Commuters had their wipers on intermittent, coffee in hand, radios low. Then the temperature plummeted two degrees in a minute and the road turned into a skating rink nobody could see.The first sign something was wrong was the red glow. A sudden tsunami of brake lights lit up the horizon and raced backward through traffic faster than