What's your most memorable blizzard ?

We had a montana problem once past Idaho. It started snowing and adding inches the further east we went. Many trucks blew a lane to black for hours ahead of us but it finally got to be close to two feet, we stopped in billings to wait until morning. And another intersection was our sleeping pad again all the stops were full. Next morning the continential divide was a battle to fight. Then the dakotas.

When you start weaving a steer tire on those grooves to the side of the right shoulder and put one tire on it no matter how bad it got it's crazy.

Ive always thought we could use some of that military heads up technology with heat camera or other sensor to put whatever is in front up to half a mile on to the windshield to make a virtual picture so you could keep moving.

 

1st ever was Scobey, MT to Williston, ND in Jan 2012....at 1am...on way to airport...with 1/2 a tank of gas......never again, or so I thought, until I got snowed in during a blow in Nuiqsuit, AK for 3 days trying to get to Deadhorse. Them eskimos sure do charge a lot for a loaf a bread!!! lol

Wanna know whose the craziest guy in the North Slope during a phase 1 blow?
The mobile tech guy that services generators, heaters and light plants.
2nd craziest is the guy that fuels the generators, heaters and light plants.

Good thread here with info bout areas of interest regarding blows.
One of my dreads as a soon-to-be-newb trucker is ice and snow.
Thanks!

 

That year I drove thru hurricane Isaac like the truck in Twister.

Then camped out all night wrapped around a telephone pole on us1 truck with the freedom tower in my mirror during Sandy.

Or anytime I drove around Quebec out to get Godin guitars rene or whatever.
Weeeee roads out there somewhere.

 

Anybody remember the ice storm in 95' that covered from North of four corners all the way to Louisiana?

Took me 36 hours to get from Durango, CO to Monroe, LA.
So along the way, while passing jackknifed rigs every few miles, I crawled into a truck stop on LBJ outside DFW.
LBJ was completely shut down at this exit.
Stumbled in for coffee, paid for my fuel and I look over at one of the tables and there sat Willie Nelson playing poker with about 6-7 truckers.
Watched the game for about 30 minutes, stumbled back to my pickup, threw a bunch of huge chunks of concrete (from the abandoned truck stop next door) in my bed, dropped my tire pressure and headed north to Denton to get around the colossal clusterfunk.
Made it to Monroe, LA and no sooner than I get my bags back in my dorm room I hear on the radio Willie fell asleep on the road outside Waco and got busted! lol

The kicker is....I got to share that story with him 20 years later on a kitesurfing beach in North Maui!