Severe weather across the South Plains can cause rough driving conditions especially when visibility becomes low. These types of driving conditions are tough for any driver on the road but for a newly licensed teen, she said she didn’t know what to do.
“Well I was by myself so I didn’t have anyone to talk to or anything and I didn’t know what to think and I didn’t know what to do, I just sat there,” Kensley Rice, a junior at Whiteface High School said.
Whiteface High School’s prom is this coming weekend and Rice said she was in Levelland getting her nails done for the event. When she started hearing severe weather warnings she thought she could make it home before the storm hit.
“The road was completely covered in water so I couldn’t get there so I just stopped and waited. I couldn’t see anything. The hail was all on the road, it looked like it had snowed, it was all over the road,” Rice said.
In February Rice said she got both her driver’s license and her first car, but since driving through the storms, her truck has severe hail damage.
“The hood is pretty dented and I have a crack in my windshield from the hail. I feel bad but hopefully my insurance will cover it and it will be good, but I do feel bad but it’s something that I can’t control,” Rice said.
The Department of Public Safety advises drivers to pull over onto the shoulder or into a ditch. They also say to not stop on the roadway especially with low visibility drivers behind who may not be able to see you.
