STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Golden Triangle cities may have dodged an icy bullet Thursday, but dangerously cold temperatures from an arctic storm are expected to remain in the area into next week.
Life largely returned to normal today, after icy road conditions feared by emergency officials didn’t materialize overnight. Area schools and some businesses closed Thursday as snow and light rains fell across the area. But most precipitation dried before it could wreak havoc on roads and bridges today, and all local schools reopened normally.
Farther north, however, icy roads and bridges greeted motorists this morning.
Authorities say a motorist was killed Thursday morning in Panola County, where freezing winter weather coated some roads and bridges in ice.
Locally, Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop G spokesman Brian Mobley reported five weather-related wrecks in nearby counties, including one in Oktibbeha. Injuries were reported from wrecks on Highway 9 North in Monroe County and Highway 278 west of Amory in Webster County.
The Highway Patrol and the state Department of Transportation confirmed the majority of ice has cleared and roadways are safe, but some bridges, hills and shady spots of road may have some lingering ice. The highway patrol is maintaining 24-hour patrols through the weekend.
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