Snow, freezing rain turn roads icy again Mark Palm of WE Energies repairs a downed power line in Appleton, Wis., Friday, April 4, 2003. More than 40,000 customers in the Fox Valley area lost power between Thursday and Friday due to icy and windy conditions. (AP Photo/The Post-Crescent, Kristyna Associated Press Another dose of freezing rain and snow turned roads across Wisconsin icy for a second day and contributed to traffic accidents by the dozens. Sgt. Tanya Connors of the Wisconsin State Patrol district office in Madison said calls about traffic accidents were coming in fast Friday night. Operators fielded many reports of vehicles skidding off the highway. "We have relatively slow traffic because of the icy conditions, so people are leaving the road, but there hasn't been anything serious as far as personal injury is concerned _ so we just hope that continues," Connors said. The State Patrol's road report showed many areas of Wisconsin had slippery conditions from either ice or snow. "Roads are still slippery from freezing drizzle," National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Helman said in Green Bay. A winter storm warning was in effect Friday night for northern and east central Wisconsin. The forecast said a few snow showers would occur early Saturday but conditions otherwise would be partly to mostly cloudy and cold. High temperatures were expected to range from the mid 20s in the north to near 40 in the far south. Forecasters said unseasonably cold conditions would give way to warming weather Tuesday and Wednesday, when highs should return to the 40s and 50s statewide. Friday's storm cut electrical service in some areas. Nearly 10,000 Wisconsin Public Service Corp. customers were without power Friday afternoon in the Green Bay, Kewaunee and Two Rivers areas because of ice, snow and high winds, the utility said, but crews expected to have power restored overnight. Temporary outages also occurred at the Appleton area. Freezing rain and sleet Thursday had produced similar problems in some areas, with power outages, school closings and traffic crashes, including four fatalities. Some schools in central Wisconsin called off classes Friday in anticipation of the snow.