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.
Prayers for all...
In Oklahoma, we are all cold, but at least the snow didn't hit in my area...
24" west of Cleveland, about a foot where I am, but it's raining and this stuff weighs a TON. This is not the nice fluffy stuff. When it goes down to zero tonight and this stuff solidifies, anyone who didn't go out today is not getting out for days.
They can't and they don't. That's why they are KOOKS.
I'm in Tampa. I have no desire to see snow. People that live in those places are plain crazy, IMO.
Sources tell NewsChannel 6 that the problem started about 3-pm Wednesday when a delivery truck was involved in an accident. As cars waited for the wreck to clear their cars were snowed in.
Drivers say they had no warning of the severity of the problem and they drove into the area becoming trapped. Many complained that they were unable to obtain information from authorities
I dont care where you live 6 inches of ICE will take everything out...trees, power lines...NO travel at all for anything except snow mobiles...
They wont get relief until they get 45 degree daytime temps and above freezing nights....
Aren't they! Merry Christmas!
Prayers for the unfortunates.
At least this stuff doesn't blow whole cities away like hurricanes. That's crazy.
When I was little, and I was seen not wearing a stocking cap and mittens in frigid cold weather, my late grandfather opined, "it don't take brains to freeze to death".
My boys were going to school out there and just came home last Thursday. Thank God they got out ahead of this storm, but prayers for all those poor people there. May He keep them safe.
We lived in upstate New York until I was 14 and we once had snowplow drifts above the second floor! The town made the front cover of Time magazine because of the storm.
Hehehe!! Yeah, but you can wear shorts and a t shirt in a hurricane! Who needs electricity and structural objects? That's for wussies.
That is the BIG problem. It's not fluffy when snow falls in the south. It turns to ICE.
Seeing cars stranded or wrapped around telephone poles is typical, even in places where one gets that much or even more snow on a given day. It just takes many people to adjust to winter driving alot longer than some. In situations like Paducah is facing, Montana issues "emergency travel only restrictions" hours in advance, and that cuts down on the chance that 40 miles of stranded motorists aren't sitting out in the cold.
I was in Buffalo for the Blizzard of 1977. Since I had recently moved from California, I stayed inside when, at 11:00 a.m. the snow began to fall. I wound up snowed into my office for three days. The people of Buffalo who thought it was just another winter storm, and the hysterical Mommies who hurtled out the door to rescue their kiddies from warm, dry, safe schools and trap them on the highway in unequipped, heatless automobiles, were not quite as smart.
When a blizzard hits, it is best to know your limits. And if you do not know how to drive in a blizzard, and especially if you are driving a "Smart Car" or a golf cart, that ought to be a really big sign that home by the fire is where you belong. (During the winter of 1982, when I was preparing to move to Atlanta from Buffalo, my sister sent me the Atlanta newspaper headline CITY BURIED UNDER SEVEN INCHES OF SNOW! We put it up in the newsroom at the Buffalo Evening News, to give us a laugh during the day. My sister, who grew up in New York, said that the people who know how to drive in snow are helpless against the avalanche of people who have no clue and who hurtle out the door to drive 100 mph on slick tires.)
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