Sounds like dustbowl days.
When conditions went from bad to worse I wonder if anybody slowed down? I notice when there’s a downpour a lot of people don’t slow down and as they pass me like it was clear conditions I sometimes think to myself “well, there’s an accident looking for a place to happen.”
Video and images at the link. What a mess.
But considering how people drive on interstates, it’s no surprise. It reminds me of that fire and fog combination in FL some years back that had a similar result. Massive interstate accident and several fatalities.
I was driving through Illinois on I 57 just east of there at this same time. I drove through Effingham at around 11:00 AM. It was quite windy, but there was no dust at all. The thing that ‘impressed’ me the most was the plethora of Highway patrol and sheriff cars. I saw well over a half dozen. There must have been some sort of patrol concentration there. They were, obviously in the wrong place.
Prayers to the victims families.
“The cause of the crashes is due to excessive winds blowing dirt from farm fields across the highway,
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It is Agriculture’s fault. Stop the farms.