The first major winter storm of the season slammed central Kansas Thursday morning dumping massive sized flakes and accumulating several inches in a couple hours Thursday morning. K-DOT crews had plenty of notice and did a great ob with the roads, but some drivers still had issues. Near white-out conditions at times lead to hazardous travel on rural highways around the town of Great Bend where 4 inches of snow accumulated in just over 2 hours.
Shot Description
Scenes 1-5: SUV stuck in the ditch off K-96 east of Great Bend, various shots of driver attempting to get the car up the ditch to no avail.
Scene 6: POV driving shot along K-96 near Great Bend with HUGE snowflakes creating very low visibility.
Scene 7-8: POV driving shots in Great Bend with traffic driving in very heavy snow.
Scene 9-12: Shots of traffic driving through very heavy snow in Great Bend.
Scene 13: Two people walking through the heavy snow.
Scene 14: Woman loading groceries into her car in heavy snow.
Scene 15: Massive flakes falling with trees in the background.
Scene 16: Massive flakes falling with a barn in the background.
Scene 17: Massive flakes falling against a country road outside Great Bend.
Scene 18: Panning shot from telephone poles across a country road into a white out in a field.
Scene 19: Shot looking downa road with whiteout on the right side of the road.
Scene 20: Shot of white out field.
Scene 21: Shot of heavy snow falling on a country road.
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