• Article Photo. A snow drift with mirrors...
    A snow drift with mirrors...
  • Article Photo. The snow can look beautiful.. from the inside where you don't need to shovel it.
    The snow can look beautiful.. from the inside where you don't need to shovel it.

     Like much of the Midwest, the Vinton area is buried under several inches of snow and many drifts of several feet of the precipitation that closed schools and made travel treacherous in several states.