Finally a sign of winter in SE WI, with late December storm: "Mother Nature said 'OK, that's enough'"

OZAUKEE COUNTY -- Roads were icy and snow covered in Ozaukee County, making for slick conditions as a winter storm dropped snow, sleet and freezing rain on Monday, December 28th.

A Winter Storm Warning took effect on Monday morning, and remains in effect until 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 29th for all of southeastern Wisconsin.

Deputies with the Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office responded to several snow-related calls on the road -- including vehicles in ditches.

Tom Koreen and his wife stopped at the Meijer store in Ozaukee County Monday -- in need of new windshield wipers.

"The driver's side isn`t clearing quite right and I wanted to be able to see. It`s kind of dangerous out there. It came on quick," Koreen said.

Koreen and his wife said they witnessed too many accidents on Monday afternoon, and they didn't want to take any chances.

"Oh it`s ridiculous. It`s like, Mother Nature said 'OK, that`s enough. We`re giving it to ya and we`re giving it to ya hard,'" Koreen said.

The precipitation started off as snow -- covering roadways, and it then switched over to sleet and freezing rain. It would eventually switch back to snow.

"I`m trying to get home before the sleet and everything comes," Marquita McVicker-Ward said.

McVicker-Ward found herself digging out with help from a stranger.

"That`s Wisconsin. We help each other out. I mean -- it`s pretty terrible weather," McVicker-Ward said.

McVicker-Ward said the weather wasn't too bad Monday though, because she knew it was coming.

"We escaped it -- and then I was expecting it to drop on us and it did. But I was hoping for January. I thought we was gonna clear December," McVicker-Ward said.

It seems winter has finally found us here in southeastern Wisconsin -- albeit late in December.