Winter Weather on I-68 today

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Old 01-02-2012, 01:24 AM
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Just a heads up that if you're going across I-68 today to be careful. The area between Cumberland and Morgantown is under a Winter Weather Advisory (or watch, I dunno) through tomorrow morning. They're expecting 6-12" of snow, cold and really windy. As long as it clears up by the time I have to leave tomorrow, it should be ok for me. Hopefully, though, I go the opposite direction.
 
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Old 01-03-2012, 01:11 AM
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They got the forecast for my area way off. Prediction was for 16"-20" of snow, with high winds. Most of the snow fall was to come as "lake effect" and that is hard to guesstimate. We got the high winds, but only aboot 2"-4" of snow, even with the lake effect machine working. Pretty icy underneath the snow though, because it started out as freezing rain. The wind gusts blowing the snow makes it hard to see, if you were driving. Good thing we didn't get that much snow, as we would have had some mongo size drifts across the road.
 
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Old 01-03-2012, 01:21 AM
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We got 2-3" here at home and it's still snowing, but not hard. No load yet to come off vacation today, but it doesn't hurt my feelings in the least. I have to bobtail about 15 miles to the empty trailer. In that 15 miles are 2 pretty good hills that are known in the area as the worst 2 places to be driving.
 
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Old 01-03-2012, 01:29 AM
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Bobtailing in that, is going to be white knuckle. Is there any way you can film this for YouTube?
 
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LOL - I've bobtailed in worse: ice/snow storm coming out of central Maine towards New Hampshire. Made it to the last rest area on the ME turnpike when I couldn't do it any more. When I pulled into the service plaza, you couldn't tell where the sidewalks & curbs were (trust me - they hurt when you drive across them).
 
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Old 01-03-2012, 04:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Malaki86
LOL - I've bobtailed in worse: ice/snow storm coming out of central Maine towards New Hampshire. Made it to the last rest area on the ME turnpike when I couldn't do it any more. When I pulled into the service plaza, you couldn't tell where the sidewalks & curbs were (trust me - they hurt when you drive across them).
even worse when you can see the rxr tracks in the customers yard and get stuck on them, at 3 in the morning
 

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