"The night the freeway turned to ice – in Kansas"

Our recent stretch of winter here in Lake Houston brought back some unpleasant memories of our frosty time in Kansas.
Anyone reading this who has lived outside the south knows what I am talking about.
Midwest winters are brutal. Imagine 30 degrees BELOW zero. That’s not the wind chill. That’s the real temperature. You are prepared for that vicious spell or better prepared than we were a couple weeks ago, but I never, ever got used to it.
Snow is not a big deal. Most people seem to have front wheel drive and you just plow through whatever snow drift is in front of you.
But ice? Oh my. That is a whole other story.

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