No workee for me
 

It's strange to be home on a week night but here I am! Sandy shut me down. I got a call about an hour and a half before I normally hit the road. Dispatch said the wharehouse floated away! Well not really I guess the powers out, that means I sit at home and wait (with out pay) hope they get it up and running soon.
'Anyone else effected by this storm yet?

I know every driver coming through Connecticut was affected. They shut all the highways down to all vehicles today.

Down here in VA it's ugly. Lots of high winds, rain and snow. Couple of truckers trying to get home to Jersey are staying at the same hotel my wife is up near DC. They are holding out hope they can get home tomorrow.......fat chance at that. The brunt is just moving in here as I type this and it's not moving very quickly. We're getting waylaid. I see out Malaki's way they are calling for about 3 ft of snow from this.

i just shut it down for the night. no idea if the people i'm delivering to in nj are open. the rest area i'm at has no electric. oh well.. parked on the on ramp shoulder parking lights on. a nyquil for this damn cold and i'm good for the night. no need to wake up early either. be safe all!

Parked on the ramp.... what can I say? Other than that SUCKS! And a cold too. hope ya feel better and get some place "nice"to park.

I'm on the far Northwest outpost, and we're getting 45 mph gusts, which are blowing all my neighbors leaves... over into MY yard! :mad:

Well morning is here and everything looks good other than a dreary and cold day ahead. Kept power but West of me at the foot of the mountains got hammered pretty badly, of the 15K out of power with my power company, all but about 300 are over by the mountains. Thankfully Sandy didn't hit about 2 months ago or it would be a whole lot worse. Most of the trees have already dropped the majority of their leaves so the trees did not have those additional mini parachutes catching the winds.

How about NYC, city blocks destroyed by a blaze that firefighters were trying to battle with chest deep water.

Also sad to hear of the ship that sunk off the coast of NC during the storm yesterday morning. It was a floating classroom with 15-16 on board, looks like only the Captain was lost. They were trying to skirt the storm on their way to Florida only to end up right in the middle of it at 90 some miles east-southeast of Hatteras.

Are you suppose to get any snow?

yeah thats what i get for being a "good" person. i could have parked on the other side where the cars were but didnt want to block parking... so i parked on an angle all night... now went to my delivery.. there is powerlines/trees in the road to get to the place. i was talking to someone who lived on the street "yeah.. should be cleaned up in 2... maybe 3 days? ". so much for doing FEMA work when i get home!

and if anyone is wondering.. all bridges to NYC are closed.

My trip to Toledo was cancelled, receiver has no power, so heading to Louisville then Nasville.
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It is a shame about the Bounty going down. Kind of reminds me of that movie A Perfect Storm,: they didn't get far enough out to get around the storm.

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...

Also... as I heard it... MANY of those firefighters lived in those homes! That neighborhood was originally "built" (settled?) by firefighters. One of the video shots, shows an iron statue of a fireman holding a hose in front of a house/block that was burned to the ground. So ironic... and so very sad!

Man, if that is true Hobo, terrible. Those NYC fireman just can't catch a break it seems.

its true. my neighbor is a nyc firefighter.

Of course it's true. I get my news/facts from MSNBC. ;)

Okay, I'm having trouble finding proof of what I heard... but, I finally found proof of what I SAW!

you should watch the panavision show at the beginning of the page. It's just unbelievable the amount of destruction. But... go to the photos below whatever that video clip is, and click til you get to photo 7 of 8. THAT is the fireman's statue I saw.

http://www.thedaily.com/article/2012...ews-sandy-nyc/