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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

My Arkansas visit

Friday, January 6, 2017

Things didn't start well. When I pulled out of McCook around nine in the morning on Friday, December 16th, the temperature was in the mid 20's and we had freezing fog. As I headed south, things got worse instead of better. By the time I got into Kansas, the freezing fog had turned to freezing drizzle and the roads had turned icy. I slowed down to around 40 and kept that speed all the way to I-70 because the conditions had not improved at all. I did nudge it up to 50 on the Interstate but it wasn't safe to drive any faster than that and kept that speed until the temperature finally reached 34 just east of Russell and the ice on the highway finally went away but the fog didn't. In fact, the heaviest fog was in Wichita and after 6 hours of driving in it, I finally drove out of it pretty close to the Kansas/Oklahoma border. The road and visual conditions put me almost two hours behind schedule and so by the time I got to Will and Erica's house in Fayetteville, Arkansas they had decided it was too late to go out to supper so Erica was cooking when I got there. After catching up on what we had all been doing, I turned in, thankful that the drive was over and knowing that the worst was behind me.

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