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Tweet I don’t want to dwell on the abomination that befell our quaint suburban paradise yesterday, but I’m compelled by my role as a documenter of local comings and goings to make record of it for posterity. So here it is: Proof that it snowed Thursday. In May:
Tweet With three major snowstorms in February and March and yesterday’s heavy rains, you may be tempted to think the drought conditions that have plagued Johnson County — not to mention the western half of the state — may be a thing of the past. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. While February’s two snowstorms helped bring total [...]
Tweet Northeast Johnson County families returning home from spring break trips Saturday were quickly reminded of the kind of weather they’d been so eager to escape. Winter Storm Virgil (or, perhaps more accurately, “Wintry Storm Virgil,” seeing as how it is officially spring…) swept through the area this weekend dropping a fresh batch of snow [...]
Tweet Here we go again… In anticipation of…God it pains me to type this…significant snow accumulation Saturday and Sunday, Fairway has instituted its snowstorm parking regulations: The National Weather Service is advising of a major winter storm to hit the Kansas City Metro area beginning Saturday evening March 23, 2013 through late Sunday afternoon March [...]
Tweet Dear procrastinating Prairie Villagers: The final hour for dropping off your storm debris at Porter Park is drawing nigh: The last day for storm debris/limb drop-off is March 17th at Porter Park (Roe Ave & Tomahawk Rd). Debris must be placed in the designated area located in the parking lot. The debris/limb drop-off is [...]
Tweet The last vestiges of the brutal snowstorms that dragged normal activity in Johnson County to a halt last month are slowly fading away — but chances are city administrators in the area won’t be forgetting the impact they had on city coffers anytime soon. Prairie Village Public Works has tallied up the totals from [...]
Tweet You lucky Fairway residents can start setting your fallen branches out by the curb for pickup starting today: The City of Fairway will begin curbside storm damage brush collection on Monday, March 11. The Public Works Department is waiting several days after the storm to begin collection to allow the snow to melt and [...]
Tweet Johnson County has launched a new emergency notification system that allows local governments and utilities to alert residents with urgent information. NotifyJoCo lets residents receive emergency notifications via phone calls, text messages and email messages. It is available at no charge to Johnson County residents. The county conducted a test run of the system [...]
Tweet This year’s snow season may be behind us (knock on wood), but if and when the white stuff returns next year, Prairie Village may be prepared to take tougher action against residents who don’t shovel their sidewalks. The Prairie Village City Council on Monday gave permission to city staff to explore creating a fee [...]
Tweet Area residents may still be coming to terms with the long-term damage Tuesday’s storm has done to area trees — but the piles of snow are also producing an immediate problem: clogging up the sidewalks that people use to get to and from schools. Prairie Elementary and Indian Hills Middle School both sent messages [...]
Tweet See if you can remember way back to October 1996, when a freak fall storm piled snow on still-leafed trees throughout northeast Johnson County, downing hundreds of limbs. Remember that mountain of chunked wood that piled up in Porter Park? Well sir, we may have a similar site to behold in the coming weeks. [...]
Tweet As in so many areas of life, for Mother Nature, quality takes time. That maxim serves to explain in part why some trees crumbled under the weight of Tuesday’s snowstorm while others held strong. K-State Extension horticulturist Dennis Patton said hardwooded trees — like the giant pin oaks common throughout northeast Johnson County — have [...]
Tweet With some residents having been without power for a full day, Prairie Village is opening up city hall as a temporary shelter through 5 p.m. From the city: City Hall is open until 5 p.m. to residents who are still without electricity. Free Wi-Fi and coffee are available. City Hall is located at 7700 [...]
Tweet Northeast Johnson County residents who had visions of a cozy snow day spent with their families were in for a rude awakening Tuesday as the second major winter storm in a week blasted the area, felling tree limbs and causing widespread power outages. The Prairie Village and Fairway areas were among the hardest hit [...]
Tweet Here we go again! We’ll be updating this post with new information about Monday and Tuesday’s snowstorm as it comes in, including cancelations, closures and reschedulings as well as photos from around the area. If you have information about the storm or photos you want to share, email us at stories [at] pvpost.com.
Tweet Stop me if this sounds familiar… In anticipation of substantial predicted snowfall Monday evening, the city of Fairway has declared a traffic emergency and is prohibiting on-street parking starting at noon today. The on-street parking ban will last at least through 5 p.m. Tuesday. “The priority of the Public Works Department will be to [...]
Tweet With the forecast calling for below-freezing temperatures to persist for several days, Prairie Village officials are pleading with residents to help keep sidewalks passable for pedestrians. “[It] is unlikely that there will be a significant reduction in the snow due to melting,” read a message sent from the city Friday. “The City is asking [...]
Tweet The massive volume of snow that piled up over the course of a few short hours Thursday morning wreaked havoc on standard street-clearing strategies, preventing plows from cleaning streets before a thick layer of the white stuff had made travel treacherous. And though the snow has stopped falling, road and rescue crews have a [...]
Tweet Thursday’s powerful snowstorm may have stymied normal workweek routines, but it brought northeast Johnson County neighbors together in the process. By the time the first and most substantial wave of the storm had passed, parts of the area were buried under nearly a foot of snow. When the storm broke for a few hours [...]
Tweet We’ll be updating this post with new information about Thursday’s snowstorm as it comes in, including cancelations, closures and reschedulings as well as photos from around the area. If you have information or photos about the storm you want to share, email us at stories [at] pvpost.com.
Tweet Trash pickup for Deffenbaugh customers is the latest casualty from the snow storm bearing down on the metro area. Both Prairie Village and Mission, who contract with Deffenbaugh, sent out notices to their residents late Wednesday afternoon advising that Deffenbaugh has suspended residential trash pickup on Thursday. The Thursday and Friday routes will be [...]
Tweet Fairway’s request that residents do not park on the street has moved from “suggested” to “mandatory”: Based on the weather forecast, the anticipated beginning time of the snow storm, and the need to be ready should conditions change; the City of Fairway will declare a Traffic Emergency under Section 14-217 of the City Code [...]
Tweet Not a flake has fallen, but preparations for Thursday’s predicted snowstorm are getting really serious. Prairie Village sent out an alert Wednesday afternoon requesting that residents park in driveways if possible to leave the roads clear for snow removal crews: The City is requesting residents to move all vehicles from the roadways as soon [...]
Tweet With the biggest snowstorm in two years bearing down on the Kansas City area, northeast Johnson County snow removal crews are preparing for as much as 24 hours of straight snowfall. Acting Prairie Village Public Works Director Keith Bredehoeft said the first plow crews will arrive at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and the department will [...]
Tweet Listen: We get it. Scraping off every li’l bit of ice from your car windows can be a pain. And, what with it generally being, you know, cold outside when car ice forms, it can be all too tempting to carve out a peephole in the windshield and be on your merry way. But [...]
