This wrecked minivan parked along Highway 14 near the Aurora Cemetery on Friday morning was one of several vehicles involved in a pileup caused by Thursday afternoon’s surprise snow squall that blew through this area. As many as a dozen cars were damaged in several multi-vehicle collisions
This photo taken by Zach Hunnicutt as he waited out Thursday’s snow squall on 8th Road north of Giltner shows conditions as the storm began to pass by. Hunnicutt had waited in his vehicle for nearly 40 minutes for this moment so he could see to drive again.
When Giltner area farmer Zach Hunnicutt left for Central City Thursday afternoon to pick up his daughter, he had no idea that a few minutes later he would be stuck in the middle of a surprise snow squall whiteout, much less that he would be explaining to a TV audience just exactly what a snow squall was. Nevertheless that was the case when the fast-moving storm passed through the area late in the …
