Most Columbia residents stay inside during winter storm and frigid temperatures

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

As winter weather moved into the city this morning, it was obvious just how few cars where on the roads today.  

Columbia road crews were on Broadway Street this morning working to get the streets clear and as safe as possible throughout the day.

Gale Blomenkamp, of  the Boone County Fire Protection District, said residents seemed to take the freezing warning seriously and stayed home.

"We have not run any, knock on wood, weather-related calls, and you hate to jinx yourselves and say things have been going well, but pretty much across the county things have been pretty normal," Blomenkamp said.

MU Health Care told ABC 17 News that it treated two patients with exposure to cold and two patients from vehicle accidents this afternoon.