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The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning effective until Tuesday afternoon, and many students experienced the effects of the storm on their way to campus that morning.
A snowstorm battered Utah for the past two days, dumping at least six inches of snow on Salt Lake City by Tuesday, according to the NWS. Kenneth Morley, a sophomore in meteorology, said driving to campus Tuesday was “awful.” He lives in the Avenues where the roads were really bad, he said.
“The closer I got to campus, the roads improved a bit, but the hill on 100 South was really slippery,” Morley said.
Although the roads were slippery, crowded and slow, campus shuttles weren’t experiencing any major delays.
“Generally they don’t have nearly the same problems as individual vehicles do because they are so heavy,” said Alma Allred, director of Commuter Services, about the campus shuttles.
Allred said the only issue Tuesday’s heavy snowfall presented for the shuttles was that it forced them to go slower.
The shuttles were a little delayed getting to their stops, Allred said.
Students also reported delays of Utah Transit Authority buses.
Antony Clark, a freshman in theater, said he waited for the 8:26 a.m. bus on Foothill Drive that never came. He said at about 8:50 a.m., a different bus came and he got on, even though it wasn’t the bus he normally takes.
“I was about 20 minutes late to class,” Clark said.
Walking around campus through the snowfall was similar to the road conditions. Both Morley and Clark said it was extremely slippery on campus.
“I was constantly slipping,” Clark said. Someone should salt the sidewalks before someone gets injured, he said.
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