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CLINT WEDEL SHOVELS A PATH to get to his firewood Thursday on the 700 block of Ohio Street as a major snowstorm hit Lawrence. The storm dropped about a foot of snow on the city, causing school and activity cancellations and a host of stranded vehicles and motorists. BELOW: A semitrailer gets stuck at Seventh and Vermont streets trying to make it up a slick, snowy hill Thursday. See a photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
Storm drops foot of snow on city Rare storm The storm started Thursday morning with light snow. By dawn, less than an inch had fallen. But the booms of rare “thundersnow” — thunder accompanied by snow rather than rain — about 6:30 a.m. signaled that the storm’s big guns were on the way. Snow fell at a rate of as much as 2 inches an hour throughout the morning, leaving 8 inches to 10 inches on the ground across Lawrence and the surrounding area.
By Shaun Hittle and Chad Lawhorn sdhittle@ljworld.com, clawhorn@ljworld.com
Lawrence’s mild winter ended with a bang Thursday, as early-morning claps of “thundersnow” heralded a daylong storm that left about a foot of snow on the ground, blocking roads, closing schools and canceling local activities. City and county crews scrambled all day to clear roads made impassable by the snowfall, with many residential streets still unplowed late Thursday night. Portions of Interstate 70 and other
major roads were snowblocked. Area residents spent the day scraping and shoveling snow from their driveways and sidewalks — or rolling snowmen, sledding down hills or throwing snowballs. Lawrence schools and
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Snow safety tips: Take breaks, know limits By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
The snow piling up outside your door may be screaming to be shoveled, or perhaps played in, but be careful before you bundle up and step outside, cardiologist Michael Zabel says. Zabel, a doctor at Cardiovascular Specialists of Lawrence, said weather like Thursday’s can pose a number of risks: heart episodes, dehydration, falls or even hypothermia.
Everyone should exercise some caution, he said, but first of all: If you have any history of heart issues, stay inside. And whatever you do, do not try to shovel off your driveway. “For anybody that has a cardiac history, shoveling snow is just about the worst thing to do,” Zabel said. Shoveling snow is an isometric activity — lots of pushing, straining and pulling — which is the opposite of the cardiovascular Please see SAFETY, page 2A
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