Ain't that the truth. When the storms came through several weeks ago, my 3 year old who had never seen snow came in "MOMMMMYYY, the GROUND is WHITE!!!" all horrified...

 

Yeah,its been a good while since we have had a hard winter.

 

Ewwwwwwww, I'm not even gonna touch that one :x :x :x :x :shock: :shock: :shock: :!: :!:

I hope all of you folks make it home for the Holidays, and if for some reason you don't, I hope you stay safe and warm....and well fed too!!

 

Sorry to hear about that Uglymutt. I also had a load heading into the storm on the 19th. Was going to run US-87 from Dumas, TX to Raton, NM, then I-25, but kept hearing 87 had been shut down. Took 287 instead up to Lamar Tuesday night, then US-50 to Pueblo where I shut down for the night. Alot of guys were shutting down in Amarillo, Springfield, and Lamar, but I had a very heavy load on plus a couple thousand pounds of ice onboard so I continued and didn't have any problems making it to Pueblo. Next day I headed to Denver when the blizzard started, stopped at the Denver-West TA, fueled up, got some snacks for the road, and a shower, and took off west across the hills. Basically made a big circle, delivering in Rifle, then deadheading to Gunnison, then east across 50 back through Pueblo, to Lamar and back down 287 into Texas. The roads were still horrible, but once again I had a heavy load, plus at least a ton of ice, so I continued. Only had to shut down when the police closed 287 south of Springfield Thursday night because of a fatal accident. Next morning, took off, left Colorado, got home Firday night, and haven't looked back. Just need to wash all that dirt and road salt off the truck! 8)

 

I don't know where you learned your history but everything I have read on the incident establishes it as a fact.

 

Hey now! I was feeling sympathetic until you talked about eating one of my fellow Swifties Yes I know we're slow on the freeways and $&!+ but its not our fault don't eat us for it.

No really tho I'm not snowed in but i'm 3500 miles from my son's first christmas so I feel your pain. Monday is gonna be even worse for me :|

Hope you get rollin tho soon before you have to start eating other drivers (try to save the Swifties for last.. or atleast me of we ever cross paths... I'm not fat so I'd be gamey and you wouldn't want to eat me anyways.[/quote]

Unless your son lives somewhere outside the lower 48 its very difficult to be 3500 miles away from anything. It can happen but its very unlikely.
If he lives in Cumberland, Md. the farthest you can get is about 2600 miles.

 

Unless he is counting his outbound miles to his drop, then his homebound. No doubt this is how he is figuring this.

 

Hadn't thought about it that way.

 

Where is the uglymutt now ?

 

:lol: :lol:
How you said that made me have to laugh!