Text Box: Kansas Travelers Trapped in Snow Drift Text Box: The drive home to Topeka for Paige and Charlie Ross from Buhler should have taken two hours. Instead, Paige, 21, and Charlie, 23, were stranded in a snowdrift for four hours. Their batteries were almost dead on their cell phones when they hiked more than a mile and via cell phone told a tow trunk driver. They could see his lights as he approached them. By the time they got home on Sunday the trip took eight hours. Charlie had graduated already, but Paige would this year. Both were from Washburn University. The couple who married on Aug. 7, had driven to Buhler in Reno County, were he was the usher in the wedding of Tim Mathias and Julie Franz. When they were on there way home the snow started to fall steadily. They were using a GPS unit. When they got to Emporia, they took a turn on Interstate 35 North instead of the Kansas Turnpike to Topeka. They then were told to turn on to a series of back roads including some minimum maintenance roads. It was 9 p.m. when they got stuck. About 30 minutes later a pickup driver drove by and decided to try to help. In two pulls, he yanked of the gas tube and bent a rear wheel, and then took off. They called 911 and finally they rescued. Their parents were worried because they could not find them at first. By: Skyler Campbell Text Box: Page # Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 6

By: Cole Lorenzen