DES MOINES - A snow and ice storm grounded most presidential campaigns earlier this month in Iowa. Thursday and Friday it was a very thick fog that blanketed the entire state and made travel conditions hazardous, complicating life on the trail.
 
While Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton was campaigning in New Hampshire, husband and former president Bill Clinton was supposed to fly to a rally in Columbus Junction, Iowa. But, he was lucky to get to land in Des Moines and was forced to phone in his remarks.
 
“They wouldn’t allow my plane to land almost anywhere within the borders of Iowa so that I could get there. I had to land in a dense fog in Des Moines,” he told the crowd via telephone.
 
Rival Barack Obama tried to fly from New Hampshire to Iowa before taking a couple days off for the Christmas holiday. He, too, ran into the fog problem.
 
He canceled two events — in Davenport and Coralville — because his plane could not land due to fog. Instead he flew to Chicago and drove down to make a third event on his schedule, in Washington, Iowa.
 
The fog wasn’t just dangerous to political candidates. The Quad-City Times newspaper ran an article describing how it contained all sorts of particles that could be harmful to the elderly and children. Read here.

And, by the way, another snow storm is expected tomorrow.

– Photo credit: Reuters/Jason Reed (snowstorm earlier in December)