Why you should park in high winds

That's what I was thinking. If a microburst got 'em they'd be laid over 10' apart.

Good work, though.

 

Hardest I've ever seem the wind blow was heading S out of Hawthorne, one of those "Washoe Zephyrs", I think.

My R side drives were dryer than a popcorn fart and there was no place to stop in town. I got a couple miles S, pulled over, and with the screaming gale conveniently at my back proceeded to have every drop of tire fluid come right back in my face, at a speed one might reasonably expect from a garden hose.

And that was the day I broke down and adopted the pee bottle.

http://www.twainquotes.com/Zephyr.html

 

I saw 3 on Sherman last week also but there was a bunch of tore up median and asphalt
didnt look like cows laying down for a nap

 

Did they all say KNIGHT on them?

 

Its a real photo. It's old and been around the net for a while. Happened on I-90 between Rapid City and Vivian, SD if I remember the newspaper article correctly, that this is sourced from.

 

Micro burst are real and if you ever experiance one you will never doubt Mother Nature again.

 

Two of the tractors were red. Maybe these bottom feeders need to put their company name on top of the trailer [emoji13]

 

Couple of years back, someone sent me a version of this pic. on Facebook, instead of "shh..." it's "a rare shot of trucks in the wild sleeping"

 

I remember heading NW out of Denver on 470 in severe winds. The truck was getting peppered with pebbles being picked up off the shoulder and there was mist and water getting pulled up from soda lake.

It was nice to be pulling a flat.

 

I remember one December back in the 70’s I had laid over at San Bernardino in a motel. Just after dinner the next day my boss called giving me a load to pick up at Orange Cove. When I got to the Tahachapi the road had been closed because of very high winds blowing trucks and trailers over, pitting windshields so bad you could not see through them. They had just opened the highway letting about 6 to 8 take off about every 3 to 5 minutes.


It was a mess, sand piled in the medium and on the edges of the highway, cars nearly covered with sand setting off the side of the road and in the medium with their paint sandblasted, trucks and trailers in the medium, some laying on their sides. They said the wind had been over 100 MPH at times with big rocks flying though the air with the sand.


Worst site I had ever seen on a highway. Made me happy that I had spent the night in the Orange Show Motel in San Bernardino and was not involved in that. Worked out good I got home the day before Christmas Eve leaving out again Christmas afternoon trying to make a turn around and get home for New Years.