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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014
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WEATHER
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Heavy snow packs Kansas 10 at its junction with the Kansas Turnpike on Tuesday near Lecompton. A winter storm has shut down schools across Kansas and prompted government offices to close.
Kansas slowly digs out from heavy snow, cold
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TOPEKA — Kansas dug out Wednesday after a thick blanket of snow closed schools and shut down state government for a second consecutive day, making streets and highways slick and forcing hundreds of homeless people to seek shelter.
The storm had dumped more than a foot of snow in some parts of northern Kansas, including the capital of Topeka. The Highway Patrol linked the weather to highway crashes Tuesday in southeast and south-central Kansas that killed a total of three people.
Teams went out Tuesday and Wednesday in Topeka to coax "hardcore outdoors folks" to come inside, said Barry Feaker, executive director of the Topeka Rescue Mission. Then 308
homeless people sought refuge at the shelter, Feaker said.
"We are out of room," he said, adding that the facility could add more cots with the city's permission.
Some mentally ill residents who don't like being around others could be placed in hotel rooms, he said. The shelter serves an average of 1,200 meals a day from 5 a.m. through early evening.
The snow stopped falling early Wednesday as the storm tracked toward the New England states. The National Weather Service said 9 inches of snow fell in Wichita, and more than a foot in Topeka and surrounding cities.
Temperatures for Wednesday were forecast to stay under 10 degrees for much of the state, accompanied by wind chills
operating on a four-hour delay at the northeast Kansas Army post.
well below zero. There was a slight chance of additional snow to return to Kansas through Monday with temperatures remaining below freezing.
Still, Gov. Sam Brownback declared that state offices in the area would resume normal operating hours Thursday,
Two traffic deaths Tuesday afternoon from a two-car crash on U.S. 69 south of Pittsburgh in Crawford County were blamed on the weather conditions. In a separate accident, also
PAT FIREBAUGH
"I'm going to get out and get moving. I'm more worried about getting out of the parking lot than the streets."
Investigator, Kansas attorney general's office
and the Legislature planned to return to the Statehouse after two days of canceled meetings.
Most schools and universities remained closed Wednesday. Fort Leavenworth was
believed to be weather-related a truck driver was killed when his truck collided with another Tuesday morning on Interstate 135 just north of Hesston in south-central Kansas.
Gadberry received 54 stitches at a trauma center in Overland Park later that morning. Gadberry's cuts were not life-threatening, but he said they could have been much more dangerous.
had some issues remembering the details" when they were questioned.
"Once I realized I had been cut and saw where they were, my initial reaction was just kind of thankful to be alive because, you know, the two on my neck could have cut my carotid if they would have been half-an-inch deeper," Gadberry said.
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"The neck could have been the worst, and it was probably a millimeter from my eye, so I could have lost an eye as well."
"Kids are gonna live their lives. You can't live being scared," Gadberry said. "One incident, you can't just let that affect everyone. I feel like a lot of people are trying to blame other people for what happened, and are saying, 'Should there be more security? Should there be more cops?' It was just kind of a crazy, random incident — just a terrible situation that
Despite what happened to him, Gadberry says the incident shouldn't prevent people from going out.
happened."
John Rowley, a manager at the Hawk, had a similar feeling toward the incident, and says that he can't be responsible for incidents that occur near his establishment.
"We encourage people to be responsible," Rowley said. "We try to provide the safest establishment as possible here for them, and what happens on their own time is unfortunate, but we can't be held responsible for that."
McKinley said the Lawrence Police Department tries to remind people not to consume alcohol in excess, which includes knowing one's own
personal limit.
The highway patrol said the driver, 58-year-old Richard Lynn Conquest of Moundridge, died Wednesday in a hospital.
"It might cause them to make decisions that are not prudent, and can put them in harm's way — especially if they know that drinking makes them get more angry and confrontational. Then certainly that needs to be kept in check."
The 1300 block of Ohio where Gadberry was attacked is set in one of the neighborhoods that received a substantial number of assaults reported in 2013. Four reports of aggravated assault/battery and 43 reports of simple assault/battery were reported in the few blocks of that single neighborhood.
parking lot of his apartment complex. He said he spent Tuesday holed up in his apartment.
The Kansas Department of Transportation reported most other major highways were still covered with snow or ice Wednesday morning.
In Wichita, the city was using sand to treat its roads because the cold made salt less effective, said Joe Pajor, the deputy public works director.
"I'm going to get out and get moving," he said. "I'm more worried about getting out of the parking lot than the streets."
Edited by Katie Gilbaugh
Rural areas were digging out, too. Near Brewster in northwest Kansas, rancher Mike Schultz was up at 6 a.m. to start his tractors and feed his 80 head of cattle. He used them to plow a snow-drifted county road to reach his herd in a pasture 14 miles from his home.
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Brothers Big Sisters program by doing a lot of tabling on Wescoe Beach. In the past, the program held an awareness week where a match who has been together for the past 13 years came to the University to speak about their experiences and to encourage more KU students to join the program. About 75 KU students currently serve as a big brother or a big sister.
So far for the "Go Big or Go Home" campaign, Self has filmed several public service announcements that have
played at basketball games and on local news stations. Self has also participated in a few radio announcements. For the Dec. 21 men's basketball game against Georgetown, a few matches were invited to attend the game including Hung and his brother.
"We are just excited about the opportunity that coach Self has used his celebrity status in our town to help us get the word out that we have a need." Schroeder said. "We are excited that he has taken it on as his own."
"It is kind of miserable," he said.
In Topeka, Jason Wills, an electrician for the agency that maintains state buildings, used a blower to clear snow from the sidewalks around his and neighbors' homes near the public library after spending part of his morning doing the same outside his church. The father of four installed a spare carburetor to get it running.
Edited by Tara Bryant
Down the block, Pat Firebaugh, an investigator with the Kansas attorney general's office, braved the cold to try to extricate his car from the
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