Sledder Calvin Morgan tests his skills at Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive, on Sunday, a day after a storm blanketed the Lawrence area with several inches of snow.

Cars litter the side of Kansas Highway 10 about 3 miles east of Lawrence Sunday morning, the day after the area was hit with a snowstorm.

The heavy snowfall that blanketed the Lawrence area on Saturday had lingering effects, as disabled vehicles littered the shoulders of Kansas Highway 10 and snow and ice remained on some patches of the roadway on Sunday.

Saturday’s storms crippled holiday travel, causing a 32-vehicle accident that killed one person and closed a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Topeka and Manhattan. The Kansas Highway Patrol had no information Sunday about the victim of the accident.

Lt. Kari Wempe of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said fewer accidents were reported Sunday. She said there was one multi-vehicle, non-injury accident on K-10, at milepost 13 near Eudora.

“There were no injury accidents, so it’s a better day,” Wempe said.

The weather kept many consumers at home Saturday, though Joe Flannery, president of Weaver’s department store, 901 Mass., said he was surprised by the number of holiday shoppers who braved the storm on what he called “traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.”

“I would say we were surprisingly busier than we would be with that much snow,” he said Sunday. “Today we’ve been swamped. Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, will probably be the busiest day of the year now.”

Christina Courtney, a manager at 23rd Street Brewery, 3512 Clinton Parkway, also said the snow diminished business Saturday.

“I would say we did half as much business as we usually do,” she said.

But the winter weather, with temperatures that stayed around the freezing mark all day Sunday, provided an opportunity for recreation, and the hills on Kansas University’s campus were dotted with multicolored sleds of all types as children and adults raced down the snow-covered slopes.

Kelfel AquÃ-, of Lawrence, watched his three children, Nikki, 6, Fernando, 12, and Javier, 15, as they trudged up the hill and zoomed back down.

“It seems there are very few times to do this, so you have to take advantage of the snow to do this,” he said. “Snow has been hard to come by.”

Erick Ronanceloy, a Denton, Texas, resident, said he had never seen so much snow. Ronanceloy, visiting family for the holidays, said his usual six to seven hour drive to Lawrence took him about 12 hours Saturday as he crawled along Interstate 35.

He said he was enjoying himself while out with his 7-year-old daughter, Nadia, who was sledding.

“This is the most fun I’ve had in my life in a long time,” he said.