Heavy snows across southwest Kansas overnight lead to extremely icy conditions in the snow’s wake. While over 5 inches of snow fell, the main problem was the freezing surfaces on area highways. US-50 between Garden City and Cimarron was completely covered in ice for the entire 30 miles between the towns. This lead to numerous spin outs and a near triple drive time. This drive, which normally takes 30 minutes, took an hour and a half.
Shot Description
GARDEN CITY
Scene 1: Snowplow driving by an SUV that spun off the highway.
Scene 2-3: SUV trying and failing to get on the road, spinning tires and sliding sideways through the ditch.
Scene 4-5: A pickup truck on the other side of the highway spinning tires in the ditch. Includes tight shot of tires spinning.
Scene 6: Panning shot of the two pre-sunrise spin offs.
GRAY COUNTY WEST OF CIMARRON
Scene 7: Wide shot of two vehicles that spun off the highway near Cimarron with another vehicle with flashers on parked on the side of the road.
Scene 8: Tight shot of the two spin outs.
Scene 9: A pickup with front end damage with flashers on sits stuck on the side of the highway as vehicles drive by.
Scene 10-12: White car that slid off the highway pointing nose down into the ditch.
Scene 13-14: Red car the crashed into a barbed-wire fence off US-50.
Scene 15: Black pickup struggling to maintain control on the icy US-50 drive.
Scene 16: POV driving shot of the coating of ice along US-50.
Scene 17-19: Various shots of traffic slowly navigating the icy US-50.
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