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Tweet Speaking of crazy storms… The city of Prairie Village has added up the totals from its clean up efforts following the storms the weekend of August 18. Crews ended up collecting more than 650 cubic yards of debris from trees damaged in the storms. The clean up effort took more than 1,000 man hours [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Jazz Festival organizer Kathy Peterson was under a tent just to the north of the main stage Saturday when the winds began to whip through the municipal grounds. And she has one word for the experience of waiting out the 30-minute storm that ended up washing out the event: terrifying. “The equipment [...]
Tweet The scene at 63rd Street driving north on Roe Ave. Sunday was telling: a sign proudly letting motorists they were entering Fairway, designated Tree City USA for 12 years running, hung from a single screw, the victim of the sustained 60 mile per hour winds that inflicted tens of thousands of dollars worth of [...]
Tweet Prairie Village and Fairway residents ended up spending plenty of time in the lawn this weekend. They just didn’t get to work on the projects they probably had planned. Two days after the first of consecutive powerful storms hit the area, nearly 300 area residents were still without power. Stop lights along Roe Avenue [...]
Tweet Mother Nature won’t let us catch a break. A second round of thunderstorms hit the Prairie Village area overnight, causing a fresh wave of power outages, putting additional strain on an already overbooked KCP&L repair crews. The utility company’s outage map on Saturday morning showed that nearly 2,000 customers were without power between the [...]
Tweet Utility and public works crews have a long day ahead of them. Power is still out throughout much of the Prairie Village area as KCP&L workers slog through a long outage list across the metro area. Prairie Village city administrator Quinn Bennion said public works crews from the city worked throughout the night to [...]
Tweet It absolutely cannot get any hotter, right? Please tell me it can’t. The 109.4 degree high recorded at the weather station closest to Prairie Village Tuesday was a record. And we were still pushing 100 degrees at 7 p.m., some three hours after the temperature maxed out. Coupled with conditions that called for a [...]
Tweet Let me know if this sounds familiar… An excessive heat warning is in effect for Johnson County until 7 p.m. Wednesday. Today’s high could reach the low 100s, but will be relatively cool compared to Tuesday, when temperatures could hit a record-breaking 107 degrees. Heat index values during the warning period will peak during [...]
Tweet Newsflash: It’s hot outside. Really, really, super hot. Like, ridiculously so. So what are you doing to try to stay cool?
Tweet The National Weather Service has extended its heat advisory for the area until next Friday, July 22. Today’s predicted high temperature of 95 degrees is the lowest for the week, with heat index values expected to peak near 115 degree in the coming days. Even at night, the heat indices aren’t expected to fall [...]
Tweet KCP&L’s power grid shows that as of 5:40 p.m., nearly 300 homes in the 66208 zip code and more than 450 homes in the 66205 zip code are still without power following last night’s storm. According to Prairie Village’s website, many of the outages are in small pockets, making it difficult for the utility [...]
Tweet Anyone who witnessed the dark clouds roll in from the southwest Tuesday night will understand just how powerful electrical storms can be. But to remind local residents of as much, Prairie Village Public Works will be posting approximately 30 signs throughout city parks. The signs, which read, “When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!” and encourage [...]
Tweet Many Prairie Village and Fairway residents will spend time this morning dealing with the aftermath of the powerful electrical storm that swept through the area Tuesday night. Heavy winds and rain felled large branches at residences around the Village Shops and elsewhere. KCP&L reports that 431 homes, 5 percent of their customers, are without [...]
Tweet SM East administrators are still planning on holding tonight’s graduation ceremony outdoors, but are keeping a close eye on the weather. Current forecasts show a 40 percent chance of showers at 7 p.m., the scheduled start time for the ceremony. The school’s Web site says administrators will make an announcement between 3 and 4 [...]
Tweet Okay. So the forecast calls for a li’l bit of rain today. And maybe some tomorrow. That’s the bad news. The good news is it’s not going to rain all weekend. And it’s supposed to get up to 77 degrees tomorrow. A 77 degree early spring day?!? Wowsers. What to do? Fret not! We’ve [...]
Tweet This year’s record snowfalls haven’t just been a pain for people commuting to work and parents making arrangements for homebound children. They’ve also caused a major headache for Prairie Village city administrators. Following the two large snows earlier this year, city hall was flooded with calls from residents with reports of sidewalks blocked by [...]
Tweet Winter weather may have made an unwelcome return yesterday, but springlike temperatures over the previous week appear to have left the roads warm enough that snow crews were able to make short work of the accumulated snow. A trek out along the roads this morning found the main streets in Prairie Village virtually clear [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb and Police Chief Wes Jordan say the Code Red message sent to 11,000 phones and 1,000 email addresses before last week’s blizzard played a pivotal role in helping snow plows clear the streets. Jordan said it appeared residents took the message to heart and stayed home during [...]
Tweet This winter’s barrage of snow has already forced Shawnee Mission to cancel school six days this year — which means administrators have to figure out a way to make up for lost class time. District spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal said the the state allows districts to cancel school up to four times before mandating [...]
Tweet In this world there are men. And then there are men among men. I’m going to go ahead and put Prairie Village resident Danny Miller in the latter category. Where many people viewed yesterday’s blizzard, with its heavy snowfall and gale force winds, as a good excuse to sit in the living room vegetating, [...]
Tweet With road conditions still dangerous, many offices are closed throughout the Kansas City metro area. So how are you spending the day after the storm?
Tweet The blizzard of 2011 may have moved east, but its effects are likely to be felt for the next week or more. With total accumulations of eight to 12 inches in the area, snow removal would be a challenge in and of itself. But add bitter cold and howling wind to the mix, and [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District has canceled all classes for Wednesday, Feb. 2. Additionally, all district activities, including those at rental facilities, have been canceled.
Tweet It’s pretty safe to call this a blizzard, I think. Road conditions throughout the area are bad and not getting any better. They’re bad enough, in fact, that we just saw a Fairway police car stuck along Shawnee Mission Parkway. Mission Road and a few of the larger streets throughout the area have gotten [...]
Tweet The city of Prairie Village will be closing its offices at 1 p.m. today on account of the weather. Offices should open at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. The city has also canceled the following meetings: Municipal Foundation scheduled for Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. Board of Zoning Appeals scheduled for Feb. 1st at 6 [...]
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