Drivers navigate Ninth Street headed south from downtown Lincoln on Wednesday.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Icicles quickly form hanging from a street sign, as a mix of ice and snow pelt the area ahead of an expected snowstorm on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at in Lincoln. A winter storm swept across Lincoln and much of eastern Nebraska. Delivering between 5 to 9 inches of snow.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Interstate 80 at the Hershey exit at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Hershey is 13 miles west of North Platte.
SAWYER BELAIR
and MATT OLBERDING
Lincoln Journal Star
David Hauser, an employee at the Trotter's Whoa and Go, struggled to see much from the window of the Broken Bow convenience store on Wednesday afternoon.
Houses west of Imperial were almost completely covered in snow. Occupants of this house tore the screen off the window in order to get in and out of their home.
Journal Star file photo
A. small town in western Nebraska looks likes a ghost town after the entire population made a mass exodus before roads were blocked.
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Unable to get around by automobile, Lorene Hickok, Mrs. Hickok and brother Verne Hickok used a horse-drawn wagon to make their milk deliveries.
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Bulldozers participating in Operation Snowbound cleared patterns on the Nebraska landscape in an attempt to reach and save stranded people and cattle.
Journal Star file photo
Almost 2 million head of cattle survived thanks to Operation Snowbound, which airlifted an estimated 35-40 tons of feed a day.
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Farmers in western Nebraska had to uncover their chicken houses from a blanket of snow that hit the state in 1948.
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Pilot Don Higgins perches atop the chimney at the Lester Goodrich farm home, where he answered a distress call.
Journal Star file photo
Two locomotives that attempted to open the railroad line were temporarily lost as snow drifts began to cover the locomotives.
Journal Star file photo
As part of rescue and relief efforts carried out by the Red Cross, a tunnel was dug to the pump houses of this windmill as snow drifts of about 30 feet enveloped the area.
Icicles quickly form hanging from a street sign, as a mix of ice and snow pelt the area ahead of an expected snowstorm on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at in Lincoln. A winter storm swept across Lincoln and much of eastern Nebraska. Delivering between 5 to 9 inches of snow.