Did I ever tell you I hate winter?

[Windwalker]

It's great up to a certain age...
then you think more about extinction,
and have the urge to migrate south.



.................................GERK!

I already did that... The migrating south, that is. I don't have to worry about icicles going through my neck. And, if I do, you guys will all be frozen solid. "Day After Tomorrow".

[bentstrider]

In Laredo your Blazer will get stripped by Mexicans then you'll have to walk in 100 degree heat.

I ride my bicycle just fine in 110 degree heat.
When I did it in the 120 degree heat in Vegas or Phoenix, I was having a field day.

Victorville, OTOH, gets colder than the rest of SoCal, especially when the whiners during the Summer pray to the Cold Gods.

Extreme heat gives me energy, while cold-air(anything below 40) literally makes me feel like my soul is being pulled from my mouth.

[Roadhog]

Extreme heat gives me energy, while cold-air(anything below 40) literally makes me feel like my soul is being pulled from my mouth.

Californian's die when it gets below 40.
Michiganders begin to consider putting on a t-shirt, but it's still too warm for that.

[Windwalker]

Californian's die when it gets below 40.
Michiganders begin to consider putting on a t-shirt, but it's still too warm for that.

And, Minnasotans tell you it's a bit nippy out at absolute zero.
Wisconsinites have found a happy medium somewhere in between the two...
The "FROZEN TUNDRA"....

[bentstrider]

Californian's die when it gets below 40.
Michiganders begin to consider putting on a t-shirt, but it's still too warm for that.

Well, I was born out in Illinois, but I guess I was doomed to have parents that didn't want me shoveling snow!!
I could handle the cold if properly equipped, just don't expect me to bask in it.

[GMAN]

I can get along just fine without having to deal with cold weather.

[Roadhog]

Well, sadly I can tell you fellas, the further north you live, the less human DNA you will find in the wimmin.

[Malaki86]

Well, sadly I can tell you fellas, the further north you live, the less human DNA you will find in the wimmin.

Thanks - that's exactly what I wanted to look at first thing in the morning...

[Windwalker]

Thanks - that's exactly what I wanted to look at first thing in the morning...

Oh, I don't know... No worse than your "cheeky avatar"...

[cdswans]

. . Glad you did the right thing hobo - too many people get pressured by their dispatch and think that they have to keep pushing on . .

Ignore them.

I had a load from hell the day of the storm. The shipper, ES3 (?) in York, PA was running 6 hours behind. It only made sense to make it an even 10. When I finally got my trailer, the service brake line was cut and I wound up waiting another 6 hours for someone to come and fix it. By the time that was done, the storm was fully engaged and the service guy said it looked like the trucks were having trouble with the hills on 83, north, for me. I was close to gross so off I went. It was bad but not impassable and traffic was non-existent. 3 and a half hours, 85 miles and a dozen or so cars off the road later, I pulled off at one of the turnpike service plazas. A CSR had messaged me for "a good ETA" . . I replied "June".

I arrived at final* almost exactly 24 hours late. There was another Swift waiting to be unloaded from the same shipper, and he, too, was 24 hours late. The only difference was, he was a repower because the original Driver wrecked (and probably lost his job) somewhere near the WV border. There was no obvious damage to the trailer but some of the pallets had broken up and they were waiting for manpower to offload it by hand.

The moral of the story? Pay attention! The cars go off the road first and then go the trucks. It's happened in every storm I've ever been in. There is no sense in "keep pushing on" when you know some bone head is going to close the road for you. And there's nothing heroic about being on time with a stinkin' load of salad dressing.

A tip of the hat to GH and to all who made it through.


*The limestone mine in Independence, MO. It took a few years and now I've been there.

[Mr. Ford95]

There was another Swift waiting to be unloaded from the same shipper, and he, too, was 24 hours late. The only difference was, he was a repower because the original Driver wrecked (and probably lost his job) somewhere near the WV border. There was no obvious damage to the trailer but some of the pallets had broken up and they were waiting for manpower to offload it by hand.

Yeah I passed 2 roll-overs still laid on their side heading to Cincy for Xmas this past Tuesday. 1 was right at the VA-WV border on I-64 and another was like 15 miles into WV which was being pulled upright when I went by. Passed several trucks that had gotten "plowed in" on the shoulders after they either pulled off and the plows blocked them in with a snowbank or had slid off the road and got plowed in by the plows. Some folks just don't know when to park it and get caught out. Passed 2 jackknifes that happened that morning due to melting snow that had re-froze overnight because they simply weren't paying attention though the one may have been due to a 4-wheeler who wiped out in front of the truck. Looked like the truck jackknifed just trying to get stopped to keep from driving over them, didn't see any damage to the truck but the car was tore up and in front of the truck.

[terrylamar]

I was driving home from Seattle, WA by way of Utah, in Texas the temp. was 10 degrees, what's up with that? That is the coldest temp. I have been in all year. Until this trip and the snow I was in out West, the most snow I had been in was in Texas! Global warming my ***!

[Malaki86]

Sitting at home watching it snow - yet again. They're calling for 4-8 inches here, with 6-12 in the hills just east of me.

So, if you're out there, be careful going across I-68. Better yet, park and wait until daylight to go across it if you have to.