It's harder to measure crowds at the parade, but Chamber Director Dave Smith estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people showed up to view the 40 parade entries.
Three solid blocks of Main Street were packed on both sides of the streets with bundled, huddled spectators.
Further down on Main Street, cars were parked in the Sears parking lot and Connell Car Care lot with people viewing floats from behind heated windshields.
The parade route went past the Hospice Cottage, Blue Mound Towers apartments and the hospital so shut-ins could see the floats. And all along that route, Smith said motorists were parked and viewing from their vehicles.