The warm/cold line stayed within 20 miles of the Red from Grand Forks to the south. East of that got rain and maybe and inch of snow. West of that got at least six inches of snow. Ashley, ND, got seventeen inches.
Just because cities on the Red got a relative dusting doesn't mean it's not bad out there still.
ND DOT is right to pull the plows until daylight if the wind is going to blow 30 mph all night.
In the open country, yes.
Go here: https://www.dot.nd.gov/travel-info-v2/
Click the lower left "Weather Cameras" to add them to the map.
Pick a camera.
As an example, ND 13 by Verona:
I had one of those ... on my roof ... from the prior storms.
I shoveled it off yesterday when I heard the potential for another foot of heavy wet snow.
Now comes the misery:
Those in areas that it rained and who didn't shovel their roof are in deep trouble. Snow is a sponge for moisture. That four feet of snow on the roof just captured all the precipitation that fell, and added to the live load on the roof trusses.
Fargo and Bismarck were on the wet side of the warm/cold line, so it rained. But that line going further north than predicted means the storm had more shove than expected as it moved further north than expected.
Too Tall kept saying he couldn't predict the warm/cold line so he didn't make any predictions for Fargo itself. The closest he came was when he said the snow difference from Dilworth to Mapleton could be nearly a foot.