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Southern Illinois, here. Thirteen straight hours of SLEET , so far. No rain. No snow. Just sleet.

It doesn't stick to anything, but piles up in the low places and corners. It's been pretty windy, too. It's mostly like driving in wet sand. It's real heavy, and out on the highway it's like miles and miles of speed bumps.

It seems to be pretty thin where there's grass, er, earth, maybe an inch or so deep, but stays on the road/sidewalks/other. I can imagine what the bridges are like. Fairly easy to drive in on level ground, but it still kept most folks away from church. I doubt if I would have gotten the Volvo out in it if that's all I'd had. Coming into my driveway, however, was another story. Picture two inches of coarse sand covering the surface. All four tires were smoking while we climbed at something under 1 mph. It was kind of eerie. I've really never experienced anything like it.