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Mike Tobin reports from Kansas City, Missouri
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- Date Feb 26, 2013
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-- in as many days to slam the heartland of our country sending heavy snow across Kansas.
And Missouri while lashing the Texas Panhandle with hurricane force winds take a look at these photos.
The winds whipping snow stranding.
-- dozens of cars in the road there in Amarillo.
And making road travel extremely treacherous -- winter blast knocking out power to tens of thousands of people writing in parts of Oklahoma that are still reeling from the last storm.
Which dumped more than a foot it's now.
And that's making it very -- to clear the roads this time around.
Wind gets blown it Nowak over the top and he -- All right -- on the windshield and it.
They should not -- his hardest.
Just trying to drive that.
Tough work indeed blinding snow also a real problem in Kansas City, Missouri.
-- they -- blizzard blowing in only five days after the last ones has been quick turnaround was.
You mentioned we have live team fox coverage Maria Molina is in the fox weather center but first tonight hoping Kansas City.
Missouri he's getting an up close look at the storm might what's the situation there.
Well it seems like the worst of the storm has passed so -- watches have of these drivers go -- says.
The one thing that the Department of Transportation wants to see is empty roads right now it's treacherous driving out there when the drivers get stuck.
That makes it hard for them to plow around we've got eight.
The roads are so better get a Department of Transportation vehicles that are stuck in the ditch.
Two of them have flipped over on their side but they say they they've thrown everything they -- this storm and they just getting to the point where they're catching up with that right now the last thing that water people stuck -- the road -- Well with heavy snow like this not only the roads were seeing does -- track make his way.
Right behind you some careful driving their might well what about power in area what about electricity.
The powers really bad and I'll show you the call Brett.
As we -- walk down here all of this wet heavy snow is sticking to the trees and it -- he's trees down.
-- you look around a look at this -- -- look across the street you can see all of the trees are weighed down by that wet heavy snow.
And that's what Penn State into the power lines and breaks the power lines and then went to go with a driving conditions being that bad.
It's really difficult for the utility crews to get out and fix the power lines once egged it once -- down CF 42000 people in this area who are without power right.
Now wow that's another big problem like any snow angels between heads just why guys are hanging out I mean anything I don't have a I didn't.
Probably not just drive to stay warm in between it's.
That's it that's found dead we'll take that for now Mike thank you very much -- -- -- the -- -- big -- -- thousands and thousands skiing in Kansas City.
Yeah it's a little flat little flat to okay cross country -- here.
Thanks fitness.