issued states of emergency. wdas kathy quinn is live in overland park, kansas, a suburb of kansas city with more. and it was bad, wasn t it, kathy? the lucky thing was that i got to stay inside in the operations center for scout where they had the cameras all across the highways to see what s going on and man oh, man, it was bad. as you mentioned, the governors on both sides had declared it a state of emergency. in fact, when we started broadcasting yesterday morning, there was nothing. it was dry. perfect. we thought, maybe they didn t get it quite right. within two hours after t started snowing where i was on the missouri side, we had six inches of snow. so the governors declared it a state of emergency very early on. at this time we ve had kansas department of transportation, missouri department of transportation, all night long, i ve talked to some of those operators, some working 24 hours straight to get this stuff cleared. i mean, it s got ice underneath.
had a lot of accidents. not as many as it could have, because we ve had schools closed, businesses closed. by 4:00 o clock in the evening, both sides of the state line, it looked like a ghost town. shopping centers were closed. it was unbelievable. highways looked like parking lots. in fact, we ve got the department of transportation on both sides actually have been working overnight to clear some of those vehicles that were left there, that were stranded. but the good news is that folks around here in the midwest, they help each other. we ve had lots of great stories about people stopping and helping people get out. but just didn t matter with this snow, whether you had one of those suv, big vehicles to little vehicles, everybody was getting stuck. but there were lots of folks helping out and just hoping no more snow for right now. it looks nice out. the white snow, but it s going to be nicer when it gets cleared away. what do you guys think? steve: that s the truth. gretchen: kat