A Death in Creighton MO

Late Friday night- at 11:27 pm to be exact- Garden City EMS in southeastern Cass county MO was sent on the call of an "assault victim in Creighton-" a very small community on Missouri 7 highway near the Henry county line.


The caller was said to be from "a very disoriented female-" and the first Creighton address that the Cass county dispatcher sends the crew to- as well as a second address- is unfounded.


Within fifteen minutes of the original dispatch- the "caller" is finally located in the 400 block of A Street.


Nothing is heard until the early morning hour of Saturday when- at 12:11 am- the Garden City EMS unit leaves the scene on A Street- reporting "an obvious death."


Several days later and according to a source at news partner KSHB-41 News- the Cass County Sheriff's department has ruled the death here "a suicide."


CSW offers our sincere condolences to the friends and family of the departed one.


Please note- all prior comments have been erased and no new comments allowed on this tragedy.

CSW WEATHER: Storm II - Update 1

A 'Winter Storm Warning' continues for virtually all of the Kansas City MetroRegion as well as the Metro.

The current NWS Doppler radar image is from KC/Pleasant Hill- and shows areas of precipitation moving north-northeast toward the Metro.


Temperatures around the area are in the mid to upper 30's- so it appears that the precip will begin as rain- which will tend to wash any pre-treating chemicals off roadways.


The snow should begin in earnest (and Metro KC) Monday evening- and a snowfall of 8 to 14-inches is still expected by Wednesday morning.


Once again- I'll post updates- radars and camera images during this new snowstorm.

Olathe KS Fire Dept. Needs Lessons in Courtesy

My brother- wife and daughter have lived in Olathe since the late 1990's.


Until Friday evening- they never had a need to call for any emergency services.


My brother could smell natural gas in their home so they correctly called upon the Olathe Fire Department to come check things out.


It was their defective furnace leaking the gas- so the fire department turned the furnace off.


Then- according to both my brother and sister-in-law- a fireman "rudely" told them they needed to get a carbon monoxide detector in their house.

?????

What the HELL does a carbon monoxide (CO) detector have to do with a natural gas leak? 


CO detectors DO NOT detect natural gas.


OFD- is the "rude" attitude standard with service to your citizens?

CSW WEATHER: Get Ready For Snowgasm II

Current indications are that this new storm should begin precipitating sometime around the 6-9 am Monday morning drive-time.


Like Thursday's snowstorm- snow rates will become heavy during the day with near white-out conditions at times.


Unlike the last storm- we'll get gusty winds during the latter part of this new storm- and with the gusty north winds- drifting will become a serious issue- with east-west roadways suffering the worst.

I forecasted 6 to 12 inches for Thursday's storm which verified- I'm going to go for 8 to 14 inches with this storm.

Some of the weather models show a precip maxima of 3 inches (rainfall equivalent) in eastern Kansas- if those amounts were all snow- it could mean as much as 30 inches!


NWS Winter Storm Watches and/or Warnings extend from Colorado into Illinois.


Blizzard Watches and Warnings cover eastern Colorado- western Kansas and Oklahoma.


Parts of the Metro could have more than two (2) feet of snow on the ground by Wednesday night- putting additional stress on roofs (two roofs collapsed in the last storm) of homes and businesses.


Fire hydrants could disappear beneath fallen- drifted and/or plowed snow..


Light snow could continue off and on through Wednesday as well and the cold weather will be around for another week or two at least.


The good news?


Meteorological spring begins next Friday- March 1 (it won't be long and we needed the moisture.)

CSW WEATHER: If You Liked Thursday's Snowstorm- You May LOVE What Happens Monday

The latest weather models runs are showing a bullseye of anywhere from 1 to 2-inches of rainfall over Kansas City on Monday.

Trouble is- it won't be rain.


Stay tuned to what could be an even larger snow mess... 

Medical Helicopter Crashes in Oklahoma City

An Eagle medical helicopter crashed and burned near a nursing facility in northwestern Oklahoma City around 5:40 am Friday morning.


Two of the flight crew was killed- a third helicopter crew member was rescued by a passerby and that third person was reported to be in critical condition at midday.


The passerby received minor injuries.


According to the OKC OKLAHOMAN newspaper online- the helicopter that was based out of Wichita KS- had just lifted off from an OKC hospital and was enroute to get a patient at a nearby Oklahoma town when it crashed into a street near the care facility.


The crash was under investigation.

KC Scout Camera Images on the Missouri Side - Part 2

KC Scout Camera Images on the Missouri Side - Part 1