Did anyone get cot in that nasty storm we just got hit with? I had a trip from Pgh, to Wellsville NY, to Connecticut, Friday night for a 7am delivery. Needless to say I was 8hrs late. Got there at 4pm. I saw only 2 other drivers around the same place. ! on the GW, and the other on I287 Saturday noonish. That storm turned into a nightmare for driving. I saw 2 really bad crashes. Hope you all made it out okay?
Nasty Storm!
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We unloaded in King of Prussia PA thursday moring with a load from Cape Canerval FL. After listening to the weather radio on XM and the US Today weather forecast,we hightailed it out of there,. Got down to Richmond VA and turned down 4 load offers,that would have taken us right back into the storm area. Dispatch got a little poed but I reminded them of our famous slogan"Safety takes priority". So we won one and beat the weather this time.
Hey Tony, we missed your storm in Pittsburg it was all cleaned up by Saturday morning, but we did see some bad lookin skid marks leading off the i79. We went to some burg called Bridgeport WV. Team run from Montreal! Needless to say juju is a happycamper! A happy woman makes for an even happier man!;-)
Glad you and Rich made it out unscathed! Rich I guess they had to eat alittle crow when ya reminded them of that slogan?
Glad you and Rich made it out unscathed! Rich I guess they had to eat alittle crow when ya reminded them of that slogan?
dieseldiva
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Well I don't want to brag but we've been roaming around the south since Thanksgiving. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianna. Just came back north a couple days ago, shock to the system it was!!
Vanman, glad to see ya got to spend some time down in "God's country", West by golly Virginia. Beautiful isn't it?? Never seen a place where God gave so much and man has done his level best to mess it up! DD
BEAUTY MAY ONLY BE SKIN DEEP BUT UGLY IS TO THE BONE!! DD
Vanman, glad to see ya got to spend some time down in "God's country", West by golly Virginia. Beautiful isn't it?? Never seen a place where God gave so much and man has done his level best to mess it up! DD
BEAUTY MAY ONLY BE SKIN DEEP BUT UGLY IS TO THE BONE!! DD
DD..You lucky ones!!! My stepson lives in S. Virginia and they are messin that up but N Virginia is still nice and W. Virginia JuJu really likes it there!
TINMAN
Kansas and Missouri gets nasty, too. I left Wichita yesterday afternoon, returning to Kansas City. The sleet began before I left, so I knew I was going to have a good time getting home. If you haven't driven through the Flint Hills in Kansas on I-35 during an ice/snow conditions - DONT'T! It's all open prarieland through hills and valleys - just nothing to block the constant crosswinds. Near a turnpike travel center/rest area, the highway curves slightly, with a few degrees of bank. I barely passed a car that had just lost rear traction and spun into the concrete median divider. I was only doing 40 by then, but then my rear lost it,too; the positraction definetly savedme from that one. A few hundred feeet, on the other side of the median was the remnants of a travel trailer (only about two feet high) with it's SUV, that had rolled several times after skidding. The people were still inside, and the head-dented windshield showed that they needed some help; two semi drivers had stopped to assist them. I was in one of those situations where I couldn't stop even if I had wanted to. Another mile north, and a semi had jack-knifed to block the other side of the interstate. The rear of his trailer was butted up against the concrete divider, and the tractor was wedged in the shoulder ditch at a right angle. No one going south anymore! I followed two Fed-Ex double pullers by driving 30-35 mph on the shoulder rumble strip (for almost an hour to the toll exit). The lead semi almost lost it on a downgrade - I bet I puckered almost as much as he did! I watched several cars simply zip off the interstate, while in a turn, ending up in a hillside; one went about two hundred yards out into the praire, and there had to have been a fence somewhere. Once we got up to BETO Junction on I35 (anyone try their nationaly-known chicken fried steak? good food-not Atkins, we were supposed to out of the "zone", but it had simply moved up with us. Another semi jack-knifed and blocked the southbound side, and several more cars departed the roadway, one coming close to coming across to our side of the interstate. Well, that was winter initiation for my Chevy van - and twice the positraction saved me from still being there. That's my story - and I'm stickin' to it!
Kansas and Missouri gets nasty, too. I left Wichita yesterday afternoon, returning to Kansas City. The sleet began before I left, so I knew I was going to have a good time getting home. If you haven't driven through the Flint Hills in Kansas on I-35 during an ice/snow conditions - DONT'T! It's all open prarieland through hills and valleys - just nothing to block the constant crosswinds. Near a turnpike travel center/rest area, the highway curves slightly, with a few degrees of bank. I barely passed a car that had just lost rear traction and spun into the concrete median divider. I was only doing 40 by then, but then my rear lost it,too; the positraction definetly savedme from that one. A few hundred feeet, on the other side of the median was the remnants of a travel trailer (only about two feet high) with it's SUV, that had rolled several times after skidding. The people were still inside, and the head-dented windshield showed that they needed some help; two semi drivers had stopped to assist them. I was in one of those situations where I couldn't stop even if I had wanted to. Another mile north, and a semi had jack-knifed to block the other side of the interstate. The rear of his trailer was butted up against the concrete divider, and the tractor was wedged in the shoulder ditch at a right angle. No one going south anymore! I followed two Fed-Ex double pullers by driving 30-35 mph on the shoulder rumble strip (for almost an hour to the toll exit). The lead semi almost lost it on a downgrade - I bet I puckered almost as much as he did! I watched several cars simply zip off the interstate, while in a turn, ending up in a hillside; one went about two hundred yards out into the praire, and there had to have been a fence somewhere. Once we got up to BETO Junction on I35 (anyone try their nationaly-known chicken fried steak? good food-not Atkins, we were supposed to out of the "zone", but it had simply moved up with us. Another semi jack-knifed and blocked the southbound side, and several more cars departed the roadway, one coming close to coming across to our side of the interstate. Well, that was winter initiation for my Chevy van - and twice the positraction saved me from still being there. That's my story - and I'm stickin' to it!