Our traveling party left our condo in the pre-dawn darkness of Friday for the trip home. It was snowing moderately as we entered I-70 eastbound. Traveling through the mountains on a snowy interstate is no one's idea of a good time, obviously! : ) Most eerie was that the interstate was closed at the Eisenhower Tunnel so a line of trucks carrying hazardous materials could go through first. The snow continued as the sky became lighter and lighter. Not until Denver did it let up. We headed into Kansas after a breakfast stop in Limon, Colorado.
The drive was uneventful until the sky turned ominously gray about a half hour west of Topeka. Sure enough, we drove into an ice/snow squall that slowed traffic considerably. My dad was driving and grimly noted "we'll have to adjust our ETA." Spun-out cars and semi-trucks began appearing randomly on the road. Traffic finally came to a dead halt for about 30 minutes while a bad accident was cleared. Eventually we started moving and the ice/snow tapered off as we drove throuth Topeka.
The rest of the trip was a white-knuckle navigation down I-70 into Kansas City and throughout Missouri. The highway was alternately ice and snow packed and snow was blowing fiercely, which slowed our speed down to 35-45 mph. Thus a 3.5 hour trip from KC to St. Louis became more like 6 hours. It was nerve-wracking but we made it.
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