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Winter storm watch issued for Quad-Cities area Thursday, Friday
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A second wintry blast is expected to hit the Quad-Cities region later this week. The National Weather Service in the Quad-Cities has issued a winter storm watch for Thursday afternoon and Friday morning with 30-mile-per-hour winds, sleet, ice and 5 to 7 inches of snow. Snow is expected to start by noon Thursday in southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri, reaching northeast Iowa and western Illinois by Thursday afternoon before diminishing on Friday. Gusting winds may cause blowing and drifting snow as temperatures hover in the 20s. Conditions are expected to deteriorate rapidly once the snow starts, with travel becoming hazardous as roads are quickly covered by snow and ice. The wintry weather follows a Monday night mixture of winds, ice and snow that around 10 p.m. locally left more than 5,500 MidAmerican Energy customers and 5,200 Ameren customers without electricity. Power was restored nearly all by mid-morning Tuesday, with a second round of outages occurring around 2:15 p.m. As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, MidAmerican was reporting only two East Moline customers without power and Ameren was reporting no local outages. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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