I had a wonderful couple of days through the storm. Started out with me parked just south of Summersville, WV on US-19 (Mt. Nebo to be exact). My load delivered in Big Island, VA. When I left out of the truckstop, the snow was already flying. Once I got to Princeton, WV on the WV turnpike and onto US-460, I was out of the snow. Delivered in Big Island and picked up in Roanoke, VA coming back to Clarksburg, WV. The weather was getting worse the further north I drove. I barely made it back to the same truckstop in Mt Nebo (well, I was actually 30 mins over on my 14 by the time I got in there). When I pulled in, you could barely tell where the road even was. I'm glad I had stopped and grabbed some food because less than 5 minutes after I pulled into the truckstop, the power went out.
Woke up this morning to find about 15" of snow on the ground. US-19 north (where I was heading) was shut down due to trucks spinning out on the hill just south of Summersville. Finally, around 9am, I decided to do it. I made if less than 5 miles and came to a standstill from more trucks hung up. It took awhile, but they got the trucks pulled up the hill and we got moving again. From where I spent the night, across US-19 to I-79, then 10 miles north to Flatwoods is 43 miles. That 43 miles took 3 hours to drive. I finally made it to Clarksburg for my delivery around 1pm. I was scheduled to unload @ 8am, but they put me right in the dock.
After I emptied out, I had to go to Fairmont and grab a preloaded trailer going to Winchester, VA. I-68 had just reopened an hour or so before. I've got to say, for the amount of snow across there, it was amazingly clean, even in WV. I had no problem doing 40-45mph from Morgantown until I got into Cumberland. Once I hit Cumberland, it changed to rain with no snow on the ground.
Ughhh - I'm exhausted...
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