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To: ChicagoConservative27

VA Governor Youngkin’s first big test: I-81.


9 posted on 01/16/2022 6:54:53 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Yeah, remember that big pile-up on 81 Northbound about ten years ago? I drove through it the day after, and it was still a mess. Cars and trucks just pushed off into the snow bank on the shoulder, to get traffic moving again. 81 is a road warrior’s endurance test and always seems to be one snowflake away from a major closure.


13 posted on 01/16/2022 7:02:53 PM PST by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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No kidding.

I-81 is a nightmare from Syracuse all the way down.

North of Syracuse, there’s nothing but Watertown so traffic is not usually a problem, however that section of 81 goes through the Lake Ontario snow belt and across Tug Hill so gets slammed regularly.

Sometimes they even have to break out the tanks from Fort Drum to pull the snowplows out of drifts.


18 posted on 01/16/2022 7:08:34 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: lightman

“VA Governor Youngkin’s first big test: I-81.”

https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/?latlng=37.124296,-80.385814

Looks like the highway department is holding its own so far. MLK day will keep traffic down tomorrow, so things shouldn’t be that bad.


22 posted on 01/16/2022 7:18:12 PM PST by Darnright
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I'm about 10 miles east of 81 and had about 7 inches of dense snow grains and pellets, sleet, and freezing rain with a temperature of about 14-15 degrees. Gonna be a b shoveling it.
35 posted on 01/16/2022 7:50:30 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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