A major winter storm brought some of the highest snow totals seen in years across portions of southwest Kansas. Reports included totals over a foot deep in areas while many locations saw double-digit totals. Heavy snow started overnight Monday into Tuesday and continued into the afternoon closing roads and causing travel headaches across the region. Winter Storm Warnings were in effect through the day on Tuesday across the region.
Video divided into two parts, the first from Greensburg and the second part from Minneola, Kansas.
Shot Description
PART 1 (00:00-03:22) GREENSBURG, KANSAS – KIOWA COUNTY
Scene 1: Police at the closure of US-400 on the west side of Greensburg.
Scene 2: Police telling person in RV about closure, while audio is low, you can hear the cop tell the RV people that it is slow going.
Scene 3-6: Various shots of closure with police on scene.
Scene 7-9: Shots of US-400 closure on east side of Greensburg, closed all the way to Pratt.
Scene 10: Snow plow clearing snow from US-400 west of Greensburg.
Scene 11-13: POV driving shots behind plow on US-400 eastbound toward Greensburg.
Scene 14-16: Shots of a semi that slid off the highway west of Greensburg.
Scene 17: Two trucks driving slowly through very heavy falling snow.
Scene 18: POV driving shot in very low visibility and slow traffic.
Scene 19-21: Various clips of extremely heavy falling snow on west side of Greensburg.
PART 2 (03:22-6:04) MINNEOLA, KANSAS – CLARK COUNTY
25 miles south of Dodge City on US-283
Scenes 22-26: Various angles of a semi stuck in snow on a neighborhood street. It is blocking the road.
Scene 27: Black car stuck in snow drift with stuck semi in background looking for street.
Scene 28-29: Red semi stuck in snow.
Scene 30-31: Snow plow clearing US-283 through town.
Scene 32: White pickup truck navigating snow covered streets.
Scene 33-35: Person walking down the middle of a snow covered street.
Scene 36: Man walking down snow covered street.
Scene 37: Cool shot of wind farm spinning in heavy snow.
What a crazy day on the roads in Minnesota. Lost track of the number of accidents & roll overs. This tow truck driver near Avon was not having a good day… 25 minutes of raw video into 90 seconds of Benny Hill like comedy. Drive Safe
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The ice castle that went through the ice back on January 4th, along with the ice recovery equipment. The ice castle was recovered today. The crew had to wait for better ice conditions to recovery the ice castle. The vehicle extraction equipment was recovered last Thursday. I was unable to be there for that. However I was there for the first attempt on Monday January 6th. That didn’t go as planed as the ice conditions still weren’t good enough.
This video package will show the ice castle’s recovery. Towards the end of the video. It will show a small part of the prep and the attempt to recovery their equipment.
Shot Description
Clip 1. Shows just a small part of the roof of the ice castle sticking up through the ice.
Clip 2. The crew cutting the ice out of the way.
Clip 3. Air pockets still coming up from the ice castle.
Clips 4-5. The crew pushing and pulling the ice castle to the recovery rig.
Clip 6. The crew hooking up the cables to the backside of the ice castle.
Clip 7. The crew slowly lifting the backside of the ice castle.
Clips 8-12. The crew pulling the ice castle out of the water onto better ice.
Clip 13. Britt holding a sign that should be on the rig, however they haven’t had time to reattach it.
Clips 14-15. Brad getting ready for his dive into the icy waters to unhook the ice castle from the recovery rig.
Clip 16. Brad going into the water than under the ice.
Clip 17. Brad coming out of the water.
Clip 18. Crew trying to pull their rig onto better ice, however the ice kept breaking away. The recovery of their rig was put on hold.
Clip 19. Some other equipment the crew uses during the recoveries, if needed.
With winds gusting up to 49MPH and sustained winds near 30MPH the blowing and drifting snow over the roadways in rural Stearns County made for slippery driving conditions today.
The snow blew over the roadways that warmed up in the in the midday sun and then refroze as Glaze Ice and then had more ice and snow build up on top to create extremely dangerous driving conditions in the high winds.
Footage of the blowing snow and numerous accidents around southeastern Stearns County on Highway 23 and Highway 15.
Shot Description
* First part of the video shot just north of Paynesville, MN *
Clip 1 Blowing and drifting snow over a road.
Clip 2 POV Drive By of a Jack Knifed Semi Truck on Highway 23.
Clip 3 – 7 Drone footage of the Jack Knifed Semi Truck on Highway 23.
Clip 8 Tow truck arriving on scene for the Jack Knifed Semi.
Clip 9 – 12 Various recovery shots of the Jack Knifed Semi Truck.
* Second part of the video was shot on Highway 15 near Kimbal, MN *
Clip 13 Blowing and drifting snow on Highway 15.
Clip 14 Snow plow on Highway 15.
Clip 15 Vehicle in the ditch in the blowing snow on Highway 15.
Clip 16 American Flag blowing in the clear blue sky.
Clip 17 Vehicle in the ditch and town truck with a plow truck driving past the scene.
Clip 18 Tow truck driver shoveling out the car in the ditch.
Clip 19 POV clip of a wreck on Highway 15.
Clip 20 Blowing snow over a snow drift with tree’s in the back ground.
Clip 21 Blowing snow and a stop sign with the blowing snow drifting.
Clip 22 Blowing and drifting snow over a open field.
Clip 23 Blowing and drifting snow with a long orange snow fence causing the snow to pile up along the side of the road in the field.
Clip 24 POV Driving in blowing snow over the road making everything look white.
Clip 25 Following slow moving traffic with the blowing snow over the Highway.
Clip 26 – 29 Various shots of snow plows.