Treading along the side of Dodds, California Street and Pinecrest makes an audible crunch.  Because of the 17 degree temperatures and occasional wind your fact starts to grow numb and your hands ache.

Sleet accumulation is about half an inch or slightly more.  A few icicles could be seen on the overhead wires but as yet no coating of ice.  Ditches were frozen.

East Third, shown in the photos, is covered in a sleet layer.  Only a couple trucks drove by, heading out of town, in two or three minutes. Their drivers opted for a relatively slow speed.  The traffic light at the intersection with Rosston Road was working. This reporter still has power in his apartment.

While precipitation as of 3:00 p.m. has let up to snow flurries, according to the Weather Channel, light freezing rain is expected starting at 4:00 p.m. Saturday and expected to ramp up to steady freezing rain by midnight and then a wintry mix by 3:00 a.m. Sunday, not stopping until about 8:00 a.m.