They're all snow birds and in Florida right now but will be back in the Spring.

I think it's going to be a mass exodus out of this place early today. I'm on the road myself in a hour or so. Let's see, I have 2,000 miles to go and deliver today so if I start out at 4am that leaves 18 hours so that means I have to average a speed of 111mph.

I just head on the CB that it's still bad in Abilene which looks like about 150 miles from me so if I start out and take it easy I'll be taking a break in 125 miles so it should be daylight by the time I get rolling again and I can do another assessment. This is a morning for full tanks for sure so I'll be filling up before I head out.

I'm not really a football fan but that was a pretty exciting Patriots game yesterday!!!

 

[quote="Bigmon"]
They have been noticeably silent during this series of snow and ice storms. :P I have been wondering for years how they can explain the planet getting warmer when some areas have had record cold weather. They don't seem to understand weather cycles.

 

One storm does not make a winter. Even after this one is over it will still have been a significantly warmer winter than normal nationwide to this point. But this storm is ugly, everyone stay safe.

 

Everything runs in cycles, including the weather. This planet is constantly cooling and warming. It has to do with the orbit of the earth around the sun. If global warming were actually valid, then this storm should not be happening. This is one of the worst series of storms we have had in several years. In years past, most people used fire to stay warm. We burned wood, coal, etc., to stay warm and cook. We also fired up our industry in this method. This goes back many centuries. Some parts of the earth are warmer while others are cooler. It is nothing but a cycle. It will change again in a few years. Funny, since these last group of storms I haven't heard anything from these global warming nuts. :roll:

 

tootie04,
We have all tried to get her to stop the stupidity, but she keeps on doing it. Right now she has been without a license for 18 months, due to get it back in a few weeks. I wonder what she will do, I know she is tired of riding the bus everyday, so maybe she will cut the BS and behave.
Great poem though.

 

Well, I did pretty good yesterday and did 285 miles in 14 hours. Before I left the truck stop on 126 I went into the drivers lounge around 2am and CBS was in there interviewing drivers and how the ice storm was effecting them. I'm not sure if anyone saw the clip, I didn't.

I left and for 50 miles it was great then all of a sudden the road was all ice. I passed at least 50 trucks, not counting cars, that were turned over or crashed. It was night or I would have taken pictures. I was doing maybe 15 to 25 mph. No way I could have continued on if there was traffic. It was so slippery an accident would have happened every 2 seconds.

I pulled off into a rest area and was lucky once again to find a spot off to the side as I was pulling in. I was there maybe 5 minutes and realized why nobody else was in this spot. Great place to get hit from someone sliding down the hill into me!!!! So I drive on and get off and park on a frontage road.

I watch TV and listen to the CB and the sun is starting to come up. Back at the truck stop before I left the reports of conditions went from A to Z and you didn't know what to believe. So I start back out and it gets worse and worse and I'm passing one truck after another crashed. There was trucks parked everywhere off the highway in places it would take local cops 2 seconds to tow them away but I'm sure this was an exception.

I'm on the pedal like an eggshell, differentials locked in but didn't make much difference. Once in a while I hit the gas and it loses traction in a second. I'm going down a small hill and riding the brake trying to find a spot between being effective and not having the trailer lock up. The trailer wheels lock up pretty easy and when they do it immediately goes either to the right or left heading for a jackknife. You let off the brake but it takes a second or two before the air gets out and the brakes release. The trailer straightens out but my guess is that you have very little time before that puppy is committed and there's no bringing it back.

Most truckers were riding the 2 wheel marks down the center of the lane. I was a little to the right riding on the little snow that was there and into the breakdown lane. Something I learned from living in New England. Wasn't too long before other people were telling everyone to do the same. I came across crashes that happened seconds before I got to them but never actually saw one happen.

Got to Abilene and was in a traffic jam for 4 hours waiting for 2 trucks who crashed to be pulled off the road. People were getting pretty nasty on the CB but most were telling jokes. Lots of us were leaving food on the side of the truck and other people picking it up as they passed. I left canned fruit and granola bars. One guy was pretty funny, he need toilet paper and he could see it waiting 1/4 mile ahead. He really had to go. I'm still laughing listening to him, the Austin Powers thing if you remember.

I must say it was a bad day and I'm glad I drove, glad I survived and experienced it. All the people that blew by me at twice my speed, well, lets just say I did catch up to them and pass them as they were sitting on the side missing a few parts.

 

Wow!!!

Those are some pic's Steve!!!

Every one of those pic's demonstrate why the company that I drove for had a rule:

If it's snow?? GO Slow!! If it's ice?? NO DICE!!!

 

I have heard that before, but I can not recall which company's moto it is.....

 

Put the camera down. You are on an icy road, and the conditions are dangerous enough. Just sayin'.

 

Sceeeeerewwww that man,
I would not have moved at all, even the most experienced driver is rolling the dice. Its good to see you made it through the gauntlet, but its a risk I would not have taken.