Posted on 02/11/2021 8:01:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Fort Worth Police Department and local service Med Star are on the scene, as well, and assisting with the search and rescue.
Due to the icy conditions, the agencies are bringing in sand trucks to help improve law enforcement and the fire department’s ability to reach and assist people in need.
"This is obviously not something we deal with a lot in Fort Worth," Drivdahl said, referring to the ice and snow. "But we do have the resources to respond to it."
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Time to go driverless. Motoring for fun is a thing of the past.
Your WFAA link is still the best with live chopper coverage still this afternoon. News conference at 4:30 CST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HtT_nBTqg
Three locations, several hundred yards apart. It’s a recovery operation with slow going as they have to stabilize the 18-wheelers so they can get to the cars underneath. Also, there are investigators on scene documenting each car before it is removed so there are periods when it doesn’t look like much is happening.
That is about enough to eliminate any driving just for driving sake.
I generally stay with the flow of traffic. I don’t want to be a moving speed bump.
At he same time...
People are just FLYING around Sacramento and Northern California these days. 80 mph seems to be typical with 65 as a rock bottom basement. And it is as bad on surface streets. It there is any distance between stop lights, like over the Watt Ave Bridge, people are doing 60 mph and even sometimes 70 mph, in a 45 mph.
So while I am running around everywhere between 60 mph and 65 mph, everybody is blowing past me at 80 mph. FWIW, my Dodge Challenger gets around 30 mpg at 55 mph, 24 mpg at 65, and 16-18 mpg at 80 mph.
I don’t think a lot of people realize they just raised the price of their gas from $3/gallon at 60 mph to $5/gallon at 80 (effectively vs 60 mph).
I guess everybody has money to burn.
I know why everybody is a NASCAR driver today. Cars are so quiet and comfortable, people don’t feel danger at 80 mph in modern cars. Add in that everybody is stressed out today, it is a mess.
“I am almost the only one I ever see employing the 3-second following rule on a regular basis. I usually follow 2 seconds behind the car ahead of me, almost religiously. I refuse to tailgate. When I’m on my game, I stay 2.5 to 3 seconds back.”
“Most people driving here on Sacramento area freeways drive like they are in a parking lot. Bumper to bumper at 70 mph. No wonder disasters occur.”
We follow the 3 second rule and are amazed in the N. Bay area what you noted, “Most people driving here on Sacramento area freeways drive like they are in a parking lot.”
We sometimes have to go Vacaville, and the last 10 miles is like driving a leg of the Indy 500.
every year on the first real snow it takes me ~a mile out of town or so till i get my snow legs back
sometimes btwn the garage and main street
They just removed a body and put it in the coroner’s van. The vans are white with a dark top so you can count how many are yet to be recovered.
Gruesome!!!
133 cars involved, about 100 injured, many serious to critical, six fatalities so far.
I live here in Fort Worth, for 46 years. It’s been at least 6 year since we’ve had an ice storm.
Lots of contributing factors to this series of accidents. Lots of newbies to the area with no experience with our ice storms, traveling 60 to 80 mph when 45 mph is way to fast, traveling without safe distancing, lots of new elevated roadways, new toll lanes with higher speed limits, toll lanes with narrow shoulders hemmed in by concrete barriers and local governments having bought into the global warming have sold off snow removal and sanding/salting equipment. Just to name the obvious ones.
The new totals are now 6 dead and 130 vehicles and still counting. I-35W remains closed. More freezing rain predicted tonight with temps to remain below freezing. 3 to 6 inches of snow predicted for Sunday and Monday.
I think last year set a record for people cited going over 100MPH. Possibly double the posted limited as well.
Things aren’t at the crazy level they were last year when everyone was doing 20+ over the limit morning noon and night and no officers on the highways.
I am seeing officers out again.
In the videos I saw at least two 18 wheelers plow into this full speed and catch air when they did (landing on top of cars below).
North of Belknap.
Wife and I took a driving vacation in the ‘80s to CA to visit a couple of her siblings. We left Bakersfield very early one morning to drive to Las Vegas.
The two lane road over Tehatchapi Pass was just thick fog and we could only see maybe 10 feet ahead. Wife was driving about 15mph and I was hanging out the passenger window to see the white line marking the road edge and giving her directions. Would have been a long drop down the cliff.
Thanks for posting; prayers up for all those folks!!!
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