Major Blizzard is Comming.......
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I 40W betw Flagstaff and Kingman.
Been sittin here for hours.
Interstate closed till further notice.
In hindsight, maybe we should have taken I-10?
If delivering in Southern CA, ALWAYS take I-10 between Nov and APR. Unless of course you choose to have a bit of excitement in your life, and risk a service failure. Jes remember, route choices are as big a part of "gitt'in er done" as anything else you do out there.
Customers whom are relying on you to "deliver", certainly WILL question WHY you are on 40, when delivering south, and it is 70 and sunny on 10. This question will certainly weigh in on their next choice of a Carrier when needed.
Falligator
Expert Expediter
It was hailing here in Salem, Ohio not more than 1/2 hr ago....what's up with our weather....geez....and some "Nutjobs" say that we are not experiencing global warming from greenhouse gases...All I have to say is if we are not experiencing global warming, then what is it????!!!
Normal late fall weather. Nothing more. These storms are common though out our history. We have just been in a bit of a lull for 50-60 years. Part of the continuing cycle. Just look back to the time just after the heat and drought that contributed to the Dust Bowl years and see what the winters were like.
We hit a peak of warm years about 5 years ago and the temps are starting back down the slope.
This is also a weak El Nino year which can add to storms like this. If it all follows suit next winter will be MUCH colder as the La Nina sets in.
To see true trends in weather you much go back 8-10 MILLION years which is about how long the continents have been in the positions they are in now. In reality the present warming trend started about 10,000 years ago with a brief 600 year cold snap called the Little Ice age. Which ended just about the time the Industrial Revolution started.
Keep in mind that the Great Salt Lake is a remenate of a vast ocean that started drying up over 1 million years ago. It streched from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.
The earth is about 4 BILLION years old and Man's heavy input into the environment is really only about 200 years old. A LOT of cold and warm periods have come and gone LONG before we were here.
We will, some day, move out of the inter-glacieral period and move into another ice age. It cannot be stopped. It may be caused by sun activity. There is also a theroy out there that proposes that the extremes of warm and cold are caused by the location of our solar system on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. The changes are due to where in the rotation of the galaxy we are at any given time. A VERY interesting theory since it kinda matches up with "G" time when studing geology.
We hit a peak of warm years about 5 years ago and the temps are starting back down the slope.
This is also a weak El Nino year which can add to storms like this. If it all follows suit next winter will be MUCH colder as the La Nina sets in.
To see true trends in weather you much go back 8-10 MILLION years which is about how long the continents have been in the positions they are in now. In reality the present warming trend started about 10,000 years ago with a brief 600 year cold snap called the Little Ice age. Which ended just about the time the Industrial Revolution started.
Keep in mind that the Great Salt Lake is a remenate of a vast ocean that started drying up over 1 million years ago. It streched from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.
The earth is about 4 BILLION years old and Man's heavy input into the environment is really only about 200 years old. A LOT of cold and warm periods have come and gone LONG before we were here.
We will, some day, move out of the inter-glacieral period and move into another ice age. It cannot be stopped. It may be caused by sun activity. There is also a theroy out there that proposes that the extremes of warm and cold are caused by the location of our solar system on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. The changes are due to where in the rotation of the galaxy we are at any given time. A VERY interesting theory since it kinda matches up with "G" time when studing geology.
If you are in and around Haw River, NC. Hold onto your lugnuts, wind is ablow'n, 70 degrees
Same in Greenville, NC, she be a howling!!! Warm. Bet the MPG's go WAY down if you are buckin this one!!
Gotta hand it to ya shooter nothing much bothers you either.
You all be carefull out there and stay warm. and keep it between the ditches.
You all be carefull out there and stay warm. and keep it between the ditches.
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mjolnir131
Veteran Expediter
not allot of snow here in cent il but what is here is blowing so hard it white out even for a truck
RLENT
Veteran Expediter
Ran across I-80 last night (Tuesday) .... didn't start to see any weather until just east of the J at Lamar, PA when it started to snow .... going up over Showshoe it was pretty heavy (getting close to white-out at a couple of points) - there was probably 3"+ that had fallen and there was about 1" thick or so sheet of packed snow/ice a mile or two from the crest. Going up the hill at Clearfield was better, but was nearly as bad at the crest and coming down the west side. By the 50 mile marker it had all turned to rain and the roads were clear.
Of course, Penn DOT was out there salting the wet roads (west of the 50 mm - where the temps were above freezing) ..... and had the plow trucks/salt-shakers just sitting in the median doing nothing up on the hills where it was really needed.
Saw 4 jack-knifed 18 wheelers - two eastbound and two west - one of the ones on the westbound side had done a 180 and was now facing west on the shoulder/hammer lane ......
Delivered 45 minutes early this morning in Sharonsville, OH (after stopping for a 1:45 nap at the J in Jeffersonville)
Currently in Beaverdam where it's snowing a little, and blowing like a mother ......
Headin' up to Dundee, MI after I grab a shower ......
Of course, Penn DOT was out there salting the wet roads (west of the 50 mm - where the temps were above freezing) ..... and had the plow trucks/salt-shakers just sitting in the median doing nothing up on the hills where it was really needed.
Saw 4 jack-knifed 18 wheelers - two eastbound and two west - one of the ones on the westbound side had done a 180 and was now facing west on the shoulder/hammer lane ......
Delivered 45 minutes early this morning in Sharonsville, OH (after stopping for a 1:45 nap at the J in Jeffersonville
)Currently in Beaverdam where it's snowing a little, and blowing like a mother ......
Headin' up to Dundee, MI after I grab a shower ......
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Last night I drove from Medina to East Peoria, US30 to US24 all the way across, and didn't see any snow other than a few flurries. Got unloaded a little after midnight, which was a nice surprise for an 8AM delivery time, and scooted over to Walmart, where I was joined by a Panther straight truck a little while later. Don't know who it was, tho, since it was 6° outside and I couldn't justify leaving the warm and fuzzy of an Espar Heater paradise. Plus, I was, of course, you know, nekkid.
Woke up at 10AM to a balmy 10° and warmed up the glow plugs in preparation to crank the Sprinter's engine. Turned the key and heard two of the painful groans I've ever heard out of my starter, and then the engine fired right up.
So, I didn't have to deal with Major Blizzard, just Corporal Cold and PFC Windy.
Woke up at 10AM to a balmy 10° and warmed up the glow plugs in preparation to crank the Sprinter's engine. Turned the key and heard two of the painful groans I've ever heard out of my starter, and then the engine fired right up.
So, I didn't have to deal with Major Blizzard, just Corporal Cold and PFC Windy.
yikes glad ur ok.......
i was snoozin in wythville WV .... diuring all that mess.... and slept great as the wind rocked me to sleep.. haha..