ABOVE: Jim Richardson carefully makes his way across icy Main Street on the morning of Jan. 8 after a low temperature of minus 6 degrees. In the background, Cody Weibert runs a big front-end loader in his T-shirt, whittling down a 6-foot ridge of snow to fill a parade of city trucks for dumping near the swimming pool. It was two scoops per truck. Weibert said the city crew spent 12 hours Sunday clearing streets. AT RIGHT: Julie Neff knocks down icicles at First Bank Kansas. "I didn't want any customers to get impaled," she said. Some businesses remained closed Jan. 5-6 until roads outside of town could be cleared. The Lindsborg post office didn't get mail from the Postal Service distribution centers in Wichita and Kansas City Jan. 6-7 but resumed delivery Jan. 8. Scott Bontz photos
It was cold and snowy last week, but the average temperatures across the contiguous U.S. and the world in 2024 were the warmest on record,…
