Posted on 12/23/2004 4:08:09 AM PST by Cheetah1
HUNDREDS OF CARS STRANDED ON I-24
NEWS MEDIA IS REPORTING THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS BEEN CALLED OUT.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN CARS.
ONE STRETCH OF I-24 HAS FORTY MILES OF CARS BACKED UP.
THIS IS THE MAIN ROAD THROUGH THIS ENTIRE REGION.
News Media is having people call in from cars. Serious situation here in Western KY. Temperatures are falling into the lower teens and single digits. They are attempting to get people out.
We have 14 inches of snow. This is the most snowfall ever recorded in Paducah, KY. Drifts are up and over cars.
Never seen anything like this here.
HWM Check......???
Same to you!!!
Yeah right you need a 4 wheeler like me:)
"Y'all stay safe" ping
I now have a '01 Blazer with 4wd... neener, neener... LOL... and, BTW, I think you mis-understood my N.P., think about it. What do we say to each other on the phone?
LOL. That's the way it is here. The older houses have second story doors and porches without steps. They used to keep the boat parked on the porch for when the rivers flooded. The dams and flood walls have changed all that, thank God.
Were you here in MN in 1991? Halloween blizzard.
That storm of 1991 dropped 28.4 inches of snow on the Twin Cities area and 37 inches in Duluth.
As the greatest snowfall in Minnesota history, the storm also broke local records for snowfall in a 24-hour period and snowfall in October, shattering the previous record of 5.5 inches set on Oct. 29, 1905.
Dubbed a "megastorm" by the National Weather Service, the storm system originated in Texas and cut a swath 50 miles wide extending from southwestern to northeastern Minnesota. After reaching the East Coast, the weather system was one of three that made up the "perfect storm" of book and movie lore.
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/103101/sne_1031010063.shtml
She's right. I drove around Detroit, well, the northern suburbs, all day today in my "gas-sipping-couldn't-make-it-over-a-speed-bump" Prius and had no trouble other than the yutzes sliding all over the road in their truuuuucks.
the company I work for was sending drivers back to Buffalo from Chicago with instructions to use the tollroad(I80-I90) acrossed indiana and ohio.They do better at cleaning the tollroads than I94,but you do pay for it.
It's not important, but my daddy was a chemistry professor. Just thought I'd throw that in.
We already got all/most of our snow and freezing rain. I am glad I took the day off because it is so much better to dig out of all that in the afternoon than in the morning.
C'mon up to the UP, eh! In December of '95 we had 63 inches in two days where I live (the eastern side). I went to college in what's called the Copper Country; well over 400 inches during one winter in the late 70's. 16 inches here is not a big deal.
That said, I realize you "southern" folk don't have much in the way of snow removal equipment. Just hang in there!
Thanks. You're right it costs on 80/90- I drove it Thanksgiving weekend and wished I'd taken 94.
No kidding? That's one I hadn't heard of. The houses in our neighborhood didn't have those "doors to nowhere" but we sure could have used them. It took a superhuman effort to keep the front door cleared.
Smirnoff antifreeze!
Yes, I've heard the 'blonde star' commercial where she locks her car door and she's stuck inside...
E-town = Elizabethtown, KY. About mid-way between Bowling Green KY and Louisville. Made it just fine, though it's cold and the surface streets aren't great.
How is I-24 now? We're on our way to Nashville, and we hadn't heard a thing until I saw this thread. Should we forget it?
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