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Published February 09, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Ice storm makes getting around tricky


Theresa Robertson and her son Seth Robertson, 4, walk carefully down the icy sidewalk on 4th Avenue West to Superior Street Monday morning on their way to a doctor's appointment. Freezing rain made both driving and walking treacherous.[Bob King rking@duluthnews.com]

  • Theresa Robertson and her son Seth Robertson, 4, walk carefully down the icy sidewalk on 4th Avenue West to Superior Street Monday morning on their way to a doctor's appointment. Freezing rain made both driving and walking treacherous.[Bob King rking@duluthnews.com]
  • Darrel Lloyd of Duluth, got a running start as he tried to slide all the down the icy sidewalk on 5th Avenue West between Superior St. and First Street Monday afternoon. He made it about halfway down. "I just thought it would be fun," said Lloyd. His friend Sandi Paavola (right) joined him.[Bob King rking@duluthnews.com]
  • Richard Knudsen tosses handfuls of salt on the sidewalk by one of his apartment buildings in the East Hillside Monday morning to melt the ice. [Bob King rking@duluthnews.com]
  • Dan Anderson, janitorial supervisor with the city, uses a salt spreader on the slippery brick sidewalk along the upper side of First Street in front of the Civic Center Monday. The bricks, more so than the streets, were prone to being slippery.[Bob King rking@duluthnews.com]
  • Jerrie Koskela struggles to make it up her driveway after taking her kids to Hansen's Little Store to get some snacks during Monday's weather event. “I think it sucks,” said Koskela, who didn’t go into work at her job in Superior because of her vehicle situation. [Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com]
  • This stop sign on 24th Avenue East is coated in ice, displaying Monday’s weather. An ice storm warning remains in effect until Tuesday morning at 6 a.m. [Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com]
  • A Minnesota Department of Transportation salt spreader drops road salt onto the 21st Avenue East on-ramp in Duluth. MnDOT and St. Louis County will share new equipment that will allow them to treat highways before storms and cut their use of salt and sand in half. (News Tribune file photo)