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Colorado Drivers Dealing With Blizzard Conditions Just Like Wyoming
The Colorado DOT has confirmed that the following roadways listed are currently closed due to severe blizzard conditions:
US 385 Cheyenne Wells to Burlington
I-76: EB Hudson to Nebraska, W.B. Nebraska to Brush
U.S. 6: Brush Colorado to Nebraska
US 385: Holyoke to Julesburg
US 385: Wray to Burlington
US 287: Kit Carson to Eads
US 138: Sterling to Nebraska
CO 86: Kiowa to I-70
CO 59: Yuma to Sedgwick
CO 59: I-70 to Cope
CO 52: Fort Morgan to CO 14
CO 52: EB Hudson to Wiggins
CO 392 Eastbound: U.S. 85 to CO 14
CO 71: Limon to Nebraska
U.S. 34: Brush to Nebraska
U.S. 34: EB Kersey to Wiggins
US 36: Byers to Kansas
CO 6: U.S. 36 to Sterling
US 385: U.S. 36-Julesburg
CO 138: Sterling to Nebraska
CO 63: Akron to Atwood
CO 113: Sterling to Nebraska
CO 14: U.S. 85 to Sterling
CO 23: Holyoke to Nebraska
U.S. 24: Seibert to Burlington
Impacts in the Denver region are expected to start late in the evening on Monday, Dec. 12, and continue into Tuesday morning, with two to three inches of snow in the metro area and up to four inches in the northern region of Denver.
Pavement conditions will be slick as temperatures fall through the night. Heavy snow is predicted for the Plains east of Denver through Tuesday evening, with blizzard conditions expected.
Crews first make continuous plow passes on the most heavily traveled state-maintained routes, including I-25, I-70, I-76, I-270, I-225, C-470, and other major highways. Then, once the storm subsides, crews will plow different state routes.
CDOT will be in a complete snow shift on the I-70 Mountain Corridor from Golden to the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel. Snow is likely this afternoon and evening, with some blowing snow and heavy snowfalls at times. Poor visibility is expected after midnight, with windchills five to fifteen degrees below zero.
Snow, blowing snow, and poor visibility are expected to continue through Tuesday night.
Southeast Colorado
Snow shifts begin this afternoon and evening in El Paso County and the Pueblo, Trinidad, and South Park areas. Primary areas are expected to be impacted by U.S. 160/La Veta Pass and I-25/Raton Pass. Monument Hill is expecting minimal amounts of snow.
The Arkansas Valley remains on standby if the storm tracks to Southeast Colorado.
Northeast Colorado
Blizzard conditions are expected in areas east of Greeley and along the eastern plains of northwest Colorado on Tuesday morning.
Strong winds gusting up to 60 mph will produce blowing and drifting snow even after the snow ends, leading to possible extended road closures into Wednesday and possibly even Thursday in rural areas as the wind continues.
CDOT works with partners in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas to coordinate possible closures. This means even if Colorado highways are OK, roads may be closed for travel into other states because of conditions there.
Southwest & South-Central Colorado
Heavy snow accumulations are expected for the mountain ranges of southwest and south-central Colorado through Wednesday.
Travel is expected to be difficult with blowing snow and low visibility. Freezing temperatures will also create icy, slick road conditions. Once the storm has cleared, can expect, periodic road closures can be expected on mountain passes to allow for avalanche mitigation operations, possibly through Thursday.
I-70 Mountain Corridor and Northwest Colorado
Snow is expected along the I-70 Mountain Corridor, with higher totals starting at the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel and moving east. Further N.W., U.S. Highway 40 will receive much higher snow totals, with more than 20 inches possible through Thursday for Rabbit Ears Pass.
Heavy snow is expected along U.S. 40 near Craig, CO 139 Douglas Pass, CO 65 Grand Mesa, CO 133 McClure Pass, and CO 82 near Aspen. Motorists should plan for winter driving conditions, including blowing snow, low visibility, and low temperatures.
Liberty Counsel Files Motion for Final Approval of $10.3 Million Settlement in Shot Mandate Class Action
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| CHICAGO, IL – Liberty Counsel filed the motion for final approval of the class action settlement in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois lawsuit against NorthShore University Healthsystem, on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million. Federal Judge John F. Kness set the final fairness hearing for December 19, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., in Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Northshore University Healthsystem. As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells. This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots. As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore has also changed its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility is considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions. In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level. |
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| If the settlement is approved by the court, it is estimated that employees who were terminated or resigned because of their religious refusal of a COVID shot will receive approximately $24,000 each, and employees to were forced to accept a COVID shot against their religious beliefs to keep their jobs will receive approximately $3,700 each. These payments should be made within 60 days of the court’s final approval of the settlement. Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “This classwide settlement involves health care workers who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. These heroes who daily give their lives to protect and treat their patients also must provide for their own families. This settlement should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII.” |
Largest Poaching Case In Wyoming Ends With Criminal Convictions
The charges were the result of a seven-year, multi-agency investigation
CHEYENNE – Three men were charged with more than 100 wildlife violations in one of the largest poaching cases in Wyoming history. The felony and misdemeanor charges were the result of a seven-year, multi-agency investigation spanning four states and involving thousands of hours of investigations and efforts by state and federal wildlife law enforcement officers, county and federal prosecutors, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department forensic laboratory personnel and others. The charges were prosecuted across four different Wyoming counties, concluding in Park County in September 2022.
“Investigating and successfully prosecuting a case of this size and scope required years of effort by many individuals and agencies,” said Rick King, Game and Fish chief game warden. “Dozens of people worked hard to make sure that even though some of these violations occurred a decade or more ago, they would not go unpunished.”
Russell Vick of Alabama, Robert Underwood of Oklahoma and David Underwood of South Dakota were convicted of numerous wildlife offenses and cumulatively fined $171,230 and $131,550 in restitution.
The case began in October 2015 when a Gillette game warden received a request from a hunter for an interstate game tag to accompany a deer head as it was shipped to Vick for taxidermy work at an Alabama address. However, a database search showed Vick having a Wyoming address and that he purchased Wyoming resident hunting licenses for several years. With this conflicting information, the warden began to unravel the case that would eventually identify dozens of wildlife violations in four different counties in Wyoming.
As the investigation of Vick widened to include cellular and social media sources, evidence mounted against his acquaintances Robert Underwood and his son, David, both former Gillette residents. Multiple Wyoming resident hunting licenses and preference points purchased in those names often shared a Gillette address on the applications.
In cooperation with Assistant United States Attorneys in multiple states, special agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local Alabama wildlife officials, a federal search warrant was executed on Vick’s residence in May 2017. Simultaneously, a federal search warrant was executed on David Underwood’s residence in Edgemont, South Dakota, and Robert Underwood was interviewed at his home in Jones, Okla. Numerous elk, deer, pronghorn and a bighorn sheep ram mount were seized from the Vick and Underwood residences, along with digital evidence.
While at Vick’s residence and taxidermy shop Alabama officers observed numerous violations of Alabama law, and through a state search warrant seized several illegally taken or possessed alligators and migratory birds.
A second federal search warrant was conducted in November 2017 after officers learned Vick had removed more than a dozen wildlife mounts from his residence, including three bull moose and three bighorn sheep rams. The mounts were tied back to locations in Wyoming where Vick poached these animals. They were later found hidden in a trailer he had removed from his property and stashed over 60 miles away from his residence in Alabama.
Using the gathered evidence and information from multiple interviews, charges against the three individuals were brought forward in Campbell, Weston, Sheridan and Park counties in Wyoming.
Russell Vick
Weston County — Vick was charged with illegally killing two bighorn sheep rams and a bull elk without a license during closed seasons and trespassing on private property to hunt without permission in 2006. Vick was additionally charged as an accessory in the illegal taking of two wild turkeys and a bull elk.
On June 10, 2020, he appeared in court and pleaded guilty to illegally killing two bighorn sheep rams. Sixth Circuit Court Judge Matt Castano imposed $20,070 in fines, $10,000 in restitution and suspended Vick’s hunting, fishing and trapping privileges for 10 years.
Campbell County — Vick was charged with 43 wildlife violations that took place between 2003 and 2012. Charges included illegally killing, possessing and/or transporting two doe and two buck antelope, 11 buck mule deer, pheasants and a bull elk.
He was charged as an accessory to the illegal taking of a buck mule deer, two bull elk, a buck antelope and a bobcat. He was also charged with multiple counts of making false statements to receive resident game bird, small game, deer and elk licenses.
On June 22, 2021, Vick appeared before 6th Circuit Court Judge Wendy Bartlett and pleaded no contest to eight counts of illegally taking wildlife. The remaining 36 charges were dismissed.
He received an 80-day jail sentence, of which he served 60 days, and was ordered to pay $40,320 in fines and $32,000 restitution. His hunting and fishing privileges were also revoked for life. He forfeited four bull elk mounts, one buck antelope mount, three buck mule deer mounts and a Winchester rifle used in the illegal killings. He additionally abandoned three bighorn sheep rams, three moose, seven elk, eight antelope, one mule deer, a walrus mask and one gull mount to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the November 2017 search warrant.
Sheridan County — Vick was charged with killing three mature bull moose and one yearling bull moose without a license in the Bighorn National Forest between 2007 and 2011.
On Aug. 31, 2021, he appeared in Sheridan County court and pleaded guilty to two charges. He made an Alford plea on the other two charges. Defendants in criminal cases can make an Alford plea in which he or she maintains innocence but recognizes that prosecutorial evidence is likely to result in a conviction. Fourth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Shelley Cundiff sentenced him to one year in the Sheridan County Detention Center, with seven days of credit served. He was ordered to pay $40,160 in fines, $30,000 in restitution and began his incarceration that day.
Park County — Vick was charged with illegally killing a bighorn sheep ram without a license, as an accessory to the over limit of bighorn sheep ram(s) and accessory to failing to tag a bighorn sheep ram.
He pleaded guilty to illegally killing a bighorn sheep and no contest to the accessory charges on Dec. 22, 2021, with sentencing on May 27, 2022. Fifth Judicial District Court Judge William Simpson in Park County sentenced Vick to 20 to 24 months in state prison for poaching a bighorn sheep ram near Cody in 2012. Vick made his court appearance via video from the Sheridan County Detention Center where he was serving a one-year sentence for poaching four bull moose.
In addition to his prison sentence, Vick was ordered to pay $12,575 in fines and $15,000 in restitution. This prison sentence began at the Rawlins State Penitentiary in August 2022 after he completed his one-year sentence in the Sheridan County Detention Center.
Robert Underwood
Weston County — Underwood was charged with illegally killing a bull elk and a wild turkey without a license and during a closed season.
He was charged as an accessory to the illegal killing of two bighorn sheep rams, a wild turkey and a bull elk without a license and during a closed season. He was also charged with trespassing to hunt on private land without permission. The offenses occurred in 2006.
On May 27, 2020, he pleaded no contest as an accessory to Vick’s illegal killing of two bighorn sheep rams. He was sentenced by Judge Castano to $20,070 in fines, $10,000 in restitution and had his hunting, fishing and trapping privileges suspended for 10 years.
Campbell County — Underwood was charged with 35 wildlife violations that occurred between 2003 and 2012, including illegally killing or possessing eight buck mule deer, two bull elk, a cow elk and a bobcat. He also was charged as an accessory to the illegal killing or possession of three buck mule deer, two bull elk and pheasants.
Additionally, he was charged on multiple counts of making false statements on applications to procure Wyoming resident moose, bighorn sheep, wild bison and mountain goat licenses for his son David and Vick.
On June 19, 2020, he pleaded no contest and was convicted of illegally killing two bull elk and a buck mule deer and serving as an accessory to Vick’s illegal killing of a buck mule deer and a bull elk. Judge Bartlett ordered him to pay $25,990 in fines and $26,550 in restitution. He was sentenced to 50 days in jail and forfeited a bobcat mount. His hunting and fishing privileges were also revoked for life.
Park County — Underwood was charged for failing to tag a bighorn sheep ram and as an accessory to the illegal killing of a bighorn sheep ram and overlimit by Vick in 2012. However, a jury found Underwood not guilty on all charges in September 2022.
David Underwood
Weston County — Underwood was charged with killing a wild turkey without a license and during a closed season. Additionally, he was charged as an accessory for Vick’s killing of a bighorn sheep ram and a wild turkey without licenses and during a closed season and for trespassing on private property to hunt without permission. The offenses occurred in 2006.
On May 27, 2020, he appeared before Judge Castano and pleaded guilty as an accessory to the killing of the bighorn sheep ram. Three other counts were dismissed. Judge Castano ordered him to pay $5,035 in fines, $5,000 in restitution and his hunting, fishing and trapping privileges were revoked for five years.
Campbell County — Underwood was charged with 16 wildlife violations that occurred between 2005 and 2015, including illegally killing a buck antelope and pheasants without a license. He was additionally charged with making false statements to procure Wyoming resident licenses for small game, game bird and deer. He was also charged as an accessory on multiple counts for assisting his father in fraudulently applying for Wyoming resident moose, bighorn sheep, wild bison and mountain goat licenses and preference points.
On June 15, 2020, he appeared before Judge Bartlett and pleaded no contest to eight charges and the other eight charges were dismissed. His plea deal outlined $7,010 in fines and $3,000 in restitution. His hunting privileges were suspended for 15 years, beginning at the end of his five-year suspension from Weston County. He forfeited a bighorn sheep ram shoulder mount, three buck antelope, eagle parts, elk antlers, elk meat and two buck mule deer.
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“We particularly want to thank special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state wildlife law enforcement officers in Oklahoma, Alabama and South Dakota, as well as several Wyoming game wardens who investigated violations that took place within their districts,” King said. “We also appreciate the many hours spent by the Campbell, Park, Sheridan and Weston county attorney offices to make sure appropriate charges were filed to reflect the seriousness of these wildlife violations. Additionally, assistant U.S. Attorneys at offices in Lander, Rapid City, South Dakota, Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Birmingham, Ala., spent a significant amount of time preparing and drafting federal search warrants in their respective states. These search warrants allowed officers to seize and preserve evidence of the many crimes committed. Employees of the Game and Fish’s Wildlife Forensic Laboratory diligently processed multiple pieces of evidence in this case and we give them our sincere thanks.”
As required by state statute, the $171,230 in fines imposed by the judges in these wildlife poaching cases will be distributed to the public school fund in the counties where the violations occurred.
As required by state statute, the $131,550 in restitution imposed by the judges in these cases will be deposited into a Wyoming Game and Fish Department account that is used for the purchase of access easements to public and private land.
Laramie County School District #1 Canceling School Due To Blizzard Conditions
LCSD#1 has canceled schools for Today due to the snow blizzard in the immediate area hitting the southeast sections of Wyoming.
LCSD#1 has activated their remote learning day for today. The School buildings will be closed, and teachers will conduct what would have been normal class activities and lessons remotely only till the storm passes.
An Un-Civil War: History Ignored…Is History Repeated
| By Marc Kelley Our story begins decades before the first shot will be fired in anger, decades before our people will reach their breaking point, and decades before corruption and political graft were viewed as a legitimate business. Many of our problems throughout history can far more often than not, be traced back to the hubris and arrogance of politicians. People who promise to protect us, to make our present lives better, and build a better future for the generations who come long after we are gone from this earth. These are the people who believe they have the ability to do and say anything they please. People who brazenly stand before us and lie to our faces, then laugh behind our backs calling us an ignorant rabble, incapable of abstract thought or critical thinking. They extoll their amoral belief the Founding Fathers hated democracy and believed government should be left to a select few of the educated and wealthy. |
| Of course selling their message to the masses requires both a plan and a vehicle; and conveniently, America has always had a free and open press, which by virtue of the 1st Amendment is protected. Again, most Americans will tell you with privileges come responsibilities. Yet time and time again, it has been media propaganda which has been used to unduly influence our elections. Surely the media would not move to quash a story of corruption and graft by the politically connected. Surely the select few educated and wealthy elites who by virtue of their birthright, would not conspire and lie to the American people, simply to win an election. Not in America, regardless of the time period. Yet in 1862, when then President Lincoln (a Republican) was facing a brutal election process and searching for a way to unite a deeply divided American people, that is exactly what happened. Several months before the election of 1864, Lincoln realized if America was to be kept intact, a larger Union Army must be raised. An Army, large enough to decisively prevail over the South’s Army of the Potomac. Things had not gone well for the North, the Union Army had suffered heavy losses, recruitment was down dramatically, and the people of the North had grown tired of war. Many Northerners believed it would be best to simply capitulate to the South and accept the concept, leaving decisions regarding slavery to the individual states. Yet, Lincoln understood our country could not survive as a divided nation and believed a new message, with a new reason to continue the fight must be delivered to the American people. Lincoln then penned his Emancipation Proclamation granting freedom to all enslaved people. |
| However, Lincoln’s closest advisors discouraged announcing the proclamation until such time as a major Union victory was won on the battlefield. Many argued the position delaying the announcement was worth the lives which would be lost because it would increase the political capital they would need to cement their re-elections for another term. Swayed by his advisors, Lincoln would not make the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation for another four months. Only following the Battle of Antietam, which we now know as the bloodiest day in American history, costing our country 3,655 American lives, did Lincoln deliver his Emancipation Proclamation. The announcement proved effective and provided a renewed pride in the Union cause. Recruitment began to rise and America was once again talking about a “just war” and the need to see it through to the end. |
| Not to be out maneuvered by Lincoln and the Republicans, and in an effort to influence the election, the ever faithful media sprang into action and coined a new word which would become part of our vocabulary. The New York World newspaper, know as the leading voice of the Democrat Party, published anonymously sourced propaganda pamphlet in November of 1863, entitled, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro. The newspaper’s publisher, Joseph Pulitzer purported the Republican Party advocated the intermarriage of Whites and Blacks until they were “indistinguishably mixed” and this concept had been added as a plank in the Republican platform. Even though it took several weeks for the truth about the pamphlet to be brought to light, this concept fueled hate and distrust of people in both the North and the South. Two weeks after President Lincoln was re-elected the New York World (predecessor to the New York Tribune) broke the story; the pamphlet was not written by the Republicans, but rather by members of the Democratic Party who were in collusion with the media with the intention of sowing the seeds of hate and division, and ultimately influencing the Presidential Election of 1864. |
| In reality, because of a corrupt and patently dishonest media, who is willing to trade what little is left of their integrity, for political favor and personal enrichment, we as Americans cannot even agree on what it is exactly that causes us to to be at each other’s throats. It matters not where you live, your socio-economic status, or even your political ideology, crime, violence, and dishonesty have become the status quo. Some will argue there is too much government and the people’s right to choose, should be left up to the states in which they live. Still others believe it is only the sheer population numbers which matter, and the concept of majority rule is sacrosanct. It is the inability of our politicians to tell the truth, the amplification of these lies by a corrupt media, and the heavy hand of a two tiered justice system, we find ourselves in 2022, fighting the same war as we did in 1860. Irrespective of one’s personal beliefs, it is this fundamental clash of ideology which inevitably results in friction, which if left to fester, becomes a malignant cancer. A cancer which must be excised or otherwise dispatched in order to protect the greater good and save the lives we hold so dear. |
| Now, some 158 plus years after Americans took up arms against our own brothers and sisters, ending the lives of 620,000 of our own people, we continue to ignore the lessons of history. We have not learned, wars are not fought by the politicians, they are fought by the common man and woman who seek not death and destruction; but rather, a peaceful life, a safe home, and the right to raise their children as they see fit. In 2022, we may not yet be in a 2nd Civil War, but make no mistake, we are certainly waging an UN-CIVIL War with our words and our actions. |
Overturning Obergefell On The Supreme Court Horizon (Same-Sex Marriage)
| WASHINGTON, D.C. – When Congress passed the “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) last week, this action can actually create the perfect scenario to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 5-4 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges regarding same-sex marriage. Prior to 2015, Liberty Counsel won about 50 cases defending marriage as one man and one woman. Then the 5-4 Obergefell opinion was released. Three of the five Justices in the slim Obergefell majority are no longer on the Court – Kennedy, Breyer, and Ginsburg. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stinging dissent, as did Justices Thomas and Alito. Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson have since joined the High Court. Therefore, the slim majority in 2015 is now gone. In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening…. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law.” “The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims judicial ‘caution’ and omits even a pretense of humility, openly relying on its desire to remake society according to its own ‘new insight’ into the ‘nature of injustice.’ As a result, the Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?” The RFMA cannot define marriage for the states. In 2013, the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor, struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that defined marriage for ALL the states as the union of one man and one woman. The Court noted that domestic relations and the definition of marriage is “an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the States.” In other words, the states, not the federal government, have the right to regulate marriage. The second part of DOMA said that one state did not have to recognize same-sex marriage of another state. This is the provision that the Respect for Marriage Act repealed, and now it requires one state to recognize the same-sex marriage of another state. |
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| Until now, the biggest obstacle to overturning Obergefell was based on those who relied on the flawed decision to obtain a marriage license. What happens to these licenses? The consequence of overturning Obergefell is now off the table and is no longer a policy reason for upholding the opinion. In other words, it is easy to attack Obergefell on the merits but the consequence of overturning it could, until now, result in chaos. The merits argument of why Obergefell should be overturned is easy. The policy argument that doing so would cause a huge disruption has always been the most difficult to overcome – until now. As a result of RFMA, when Obergefell is overturned, those who obtained licenses will be “grandfathered” in and the licenses will remain valid. However, like abortion, the Supreme Court will overturn Obergefell and states will then be free to return to their laws prior to 2015 where they defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Liberty Counsel’s case involving Kim Davis may be the vehicle to help overturn Obergefell. This case is working its way back to the Supreme Court where one of the arguments will be that Obergefell was wrongly decided. Justices Thomas and Alito have already invited future challenges to the 2015 Obergefell marriage case since the decision was never constitutional. Justice Thomas previously wrote, “Davis found herself with a choice between her religious beliefs and her job.” He continued, “Davis may have been one of the first victims of this Court’s cavalier treatment of religion in its Obergefell decision, but she will not be the last.” Justice Thomas said “the Court has created a problem that only it can fix. Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ‘ruinous consequences for religious liberty.’” The drafters and supporters of RFMA did not intend for the consequence that is forthcoming. But it will come. Like Roe, the days of Obergefell are numbered. Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “While I am disappointed that the ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ passed both houses of Congress, the bill will be the undoing of the Supreme Court’s 2015 same-sex marriage opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. The advocates of RFMA may celebrate today, but that celebration will not last. Lawmakers have unwittingly created the perfect scenario to overturn the unconstitutional Obergefell decision.” |
Winter Snow Advisory for Yellowstone County
According to the Weather station,
9:35AM MST until December 13 at 5:00AM MST by NWS Billings
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM MST TUESDAY…
WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 6 inches by Tuesday morning.
WHERE…Portions of central and south central Montana. * WHEN…Until 5 AM MST Tuesday.
IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions. Patchy blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The hazardous conditions will impact the commutes on Monday and Tuesday.
Additional snow is possible Tuesday into Wednesday night.
A warning is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, imminent or likely.
A watch is used when the risk of a hazardous weather or hydrologic event has increased significantly, but its occurrence, location or timing is still uncertain.
An advisory is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, imminent or likely.
Major Winter Blizzard Will Hit Wyoming On Monday And Continue Through Wednesday
According to Wyoming Weather Center, blizzard Warnings have been posted from Chadron to Lusk to Douglas from Monday evening through Wednesday.
Winter Storm Watches have been expanded to cover much of southeast Wyoming and Nebraska Panhandle for the same time period.
A powerful low pressure system is forecast to track across northeastern Colorado into central Nebraska through Wednesday, bringing strong winds and heavy snow to many areas.
Snow amounts could change depending on the exact track of this low pressure system. Travel will be difficult beginning Monday night and especially Tuesday into Tuesday night due to strong winds, heavy snow and low visibility.
