Mike Hollingshead
This was a pretty fun little surprise this morning into the afternoon. It was around 59 around Omaha yesterday afternoon, by mid-day today it was low single digits with winds gusting up to 50(guessing there were bouts sustained over 40...at least out in the middle of the flats of western IA where I was). The 3 degrees or so with high winds felt worse than the -20 the other morning. If I took my hand out of the glove to mess with the camera, it was quickly toast and in serious pain(I really need to stop doing that..grabbing the metal tripod legs doesn't help). There were some fun whiteout conditions on this gravel road where I estimate the viewing distance was about 3 car lengths at times. While shooting cars on highway 30 I about had a big accident happen next to me off the shoulder. There was a turning lane and then a decent shoulder, so I felt it was safe enough. That was till some semis and cars about crashed right there. 3 miles or so to the west at the bridge I guess a semi smashed into a van. Sounds like there were likely fatalities there. Pretty amazing what about 1 inch of snow can do in the open. Will post a report later. It's largely being a retard playing "hurricane chaser" standing in the wind. That along with highway near whiteout scenes and some decent sundogs.