00:00Last time we spoke to you, Mike, you said you would be moving around to see what things are looking like across the city. What have you seen?
00:09Yes, good morning. The sun is coming up and it's just a beautiful winterscape here. We're probably pushing six or seven inches here.
00:19I'm on the west side of town here on Markham Street near University Boulevard and not a ton of problems.
00:25Most of the highways and the main roads are passable if you have the proper equipment.
00:30Any struggling I have seen have been in vehicles that are two-wheel drive.
00:34This front-wheel drive sedan behind me here probably feels like you've got pretty good traction because you have the weight of the engine over those front wheels.
00:42But any turning or stopping, anytime you need to make any type of maneuver, you're going to lose traction.
00:48And once you lose it, you're buried.
00:49I mean, we've got enough snow here that if you lose traction, you're going to get buried.
00:52You're not going to get out until someone in an orange jacket and a floppy eared hat comes along to push you out.
00:59So a lot of people stopping to help. I haven't seen it. I've seen one car here that's stuck and abandoned about a mile west of me.
01:05As far as seeing people stuck, a lot of people getting stuck and then getting pushed out and then having no trouble.
01:12But, you know, the entrance ramps, you see that?
01:16Four-wheel drive Jeep guy stops to help push out the front-wheel drive sedan.
01:20I was going to go push him out once we finished, but looks like he's on the road and he's good to go.
01:24You know, slow and steady wins the race here.
01:27But if you're in a vehicle that's not really suited for this, you're going to have issues.
01:31And you've been out there again throughout town and throughout the morning.
01:35How has it been? Have you seen a lot of plows, road clues really working to clean this up?
01:40I know you're not. There's probably a difference between some of those main roads that are maintained by Arkansas versus some of the side roads.
01:50You know, the interstates are being plowed constantly.
01:54The city streets and some of the state highways, I haven't seen any of those plows in the city or county areas.
02:02But the interstates, they're on a constant loop back and forth, keeping it plowed.
02:06And the snow is still coming down heavily enough that they're working uphill right now just to keep it clear.
02:11But the side streets look like they have been plowed. We've got two lanes in both directions.
02:15So just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean that they're not out and about.
02:18I've definitely spent more time on the highways.
02:20But, you know, mostly clear, you're still going to have issues if you're not suited for it.
02:26Mike Scanlon reporting live for us in Little Rock, Arkansas.
02:29It's the importance of a storm chaser.
02:31I mean, you show it every storm you're covering, whether it's tropical weather, whether it's tornadoes, and now winter weather.
02:35I mean, you're there to report of what it looks like.
02:37But you're actually helping the people of Little Rock and, you know, offering to push their vehicles.
02:41Just such important work you do.
02:43We appreciate you being out there for us this morning, and we'll check back in.
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