19-Jan-2024 -- I awoke to howling winds, a temperature of 0°F, and a dead rental car battery. The owner of my tiny Airbnb in Blue Mound, KS swung by to give me a jump and I was on my way to this nearby confluence shortly after, parking at the closest bend in Willow Road at 9:35 am and leaving the car idling as I ventured out to the confluence in a fallow field. Frozen deer tracks were the only sign of life I saw, although there were a few shotgun shells in the nearby woods I passed through. I was back to my car by 9:40 am. It was cooold.