James Dornbrook, reporter with the Kansas City Business Journal, wrote, “I grew up in Wisconsin and consider myself an expert winter driver, but road conditions in the Kansas City area Thursday are about as bad as I’ve seen anywhere.”
“The Interstate 70 on-ramp at 13th street is extremely hazardous. The interstate itself has a plowed lane open, but it’s slick on the bridges and overpasses. I drove most of it in second gear to keep traction,” he wrote.
Dornbrook said that cars are stuck everywhere on the sides of the streets, and that exits are completely impassable and have not been plowed. When the roads were plowed, it pushed the plowed snow onto the exits, and drivers who attempted to use those exits now have their cars stuck there, he said.
He added that he was fortunate to get home by flowing a snowplow.
