Icy roads drained Kansas City’s blood supply — time to donate!

For a second there, the press release from the Community Blood Center had me thinking that there were so many bloody accidents on icy KC roadways that the blood bank was tapped dry. But that blood-soaked assumption was grossly inaccurate.

The actual scenario: The first major snowstorm of the year forced the cancellation of three-fourths of the CBC’s mobile blood drives. Now, the supply of vampire food is at an alarming low, so the CBC is calling for emergency donations to supply the 70 Kansas and Missouri hospital partners that depend on its services.