Released November 12, 2009
URBANA, Ill. - When winter hits, the snow flies, and the roads become treacherous, who are you going to call? One option is a new University of Illinois Extension website, Winter Storm Resource Center (http://urbanext.illinois.edu/winter/).
"Winter Snow Resource Center" includes links to Illinois highway conditions, Amtrak schedules, Chicago Transit Authority routes, various airports, tips for driving in the snow, how to start a dead battery, getting your car ready for winter, and other help information.
"It's a wonderful place to go to find highway conditions and weather forecasts," said Jane Scherer, U of I Extension urban programs specialist and director of its websites.
Developed by Ron Wolford, an Extension horticulture and environment educator, the website links to a wide array of information on weather and winter storms.
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http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news4949.html
Source: Jane Scherer, 217-244-2849, jscherer@illinois.edu
Writer: Gary Beaumont, 217-333-9440, beaumont@uiuc.edu
