royal888 A Powerful Winter Storm Begins Its March Across the Middle of the U.S.

A large winter storm that is expected to bring strong winds and heavy snow to a dozen states arrived in the Great Plains on Saturday, forcing officials to close the Kansas City airport in Missouri and an 18-mile section of Interstate 70 in Kansas.

The Kansas City International Airport was closed for about two hours on Saturday while crews worked to clear runways but flights resumed in the evening, Quinton Lucas, the city’s mayor, said on social media.

Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas declared a state of emergency in the state on Saturday afternoon, as officials braced for the storm to worsen.

The Kansas City region was under a blizzard warning until 3 a.m. on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service, which predicted that the area would be blanketed by nine to 14 inches of snow and face wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour.

“Travel could be very difficult to impossible,” the service said in an update.

The airport’s closure delayed a Kansas City Chiefs team flight to Denver by about three hours but the team was in the air by 5:30 p.m. local time, Brad Gee, a spokesman for the Chiefs, said. The Chiefs were scheduled to play the Broncos on Sunday afternoon.

The storm was also wreaking havoc on the state’s highways.

In a video filmed near a rolled-over semi on Interstate 135 in Kansas and posted on social media, Trooper Ben Gardner of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that the highway was “very, very slick” and that “it’s not getting any better.”

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