Hurricane Irene
#11
08-28-2011, 05:12 AM
I ran hurricane loads when I was at USXpress. Paid good for a company-driver job.
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#12
08-28-2011, 05:56 AM
i did fema loads for hurricane ivan.. amazing experience. wish i could do it again.
as far as this storm.. i was driving semi in to it lastnight.. wasnt fun.
#13
08-28-2011, 08:44 AM
lucky for me it didn't hit as hard as it was supposed to in my neck of the woods. My wife told me she was staying, and had my in fits till I was sure the storm had passed.
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#14
08-29-2011, 12:47 AM
I-88 is closed at Cobleskill, around 25 miles sw of Albany due to flooded roadways. The NY thruway is closed just west of Albany too. I'm hanging at a walmart. They're saying maybe things will start to open up around noon.
#15
08-29-2011, 02:10 AM
You should be getting combat pay for going in that area right now. :block:
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#16
08-29-2011, 03:44 AM
The hard part is having such a poor internet connection.  My Sprint connection manager is showing all bars at the highest speed and yet pages are taking forever to load. I guess that shows how taxed their system is at the moment.Here's a link for anybody else in the same boat. As I understand it, the thruway will open first and I-88 sometime later. New York State Thruway Authority
#17
08-30-2011, 02:18 AM
I've seen a number of pics of the flooding in the northeast, and in a number of those pics, I was also able to see semis with water up to the doors. The flooded trucks won't be running for a while, so the out of state trucks will have to pick up the slack. Should be a lot of work for you guys for a while.
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