Avalanche hits I70 in Colorado

Shivering? No idle and no APU?

 

Must be working for CR England

 

I can idle and my truck doesn’t have a timer or auto-shutdown. It “could” be warmer in here, but I have a trainee on board that i swear is part Polar Bear. It’s just easier at this point to crawl under my Egyptian cotton sheets with my free range goose down comforter and hand knit wool socks. “Shivering” was just posted for comedic effect.

 

Nope. I drive for Western Express.

 

Now you have to carry a avalanche beacon in Colorado while driving across the mountains so they can find you. Just watch out for when they start probing to see where you are, some use a bit of force.

 

Another big slide on vail pass with both directions closed, more storms will be coming so that is one area to avoid for a few months unless this global warming really kicks in. It is large amounts of heavy wet snow on a old corny snowpack so they start up high and make a new path to the valley, and in the front of those slides are broken trees, rocks and whatever other junk that it sweeps up.

 

I’m on the 70 in Richfield Utah headed that way. Hoping that it’s cleaned up in the next 8 hours when I get there.

 

You might be able to sneak by in between the storms, just stop in Grand Junction and check, more storms are in line for the next few days. Those avalanches are catching them by surprise so they are going in panic mode, they will close the roads down when it clears so they can shoot the canons up the hill. It is way above snowpack levels now and it all fell the last few weeks so they are heavy wet snow on top of the old old layers which are now like ball bearings.

 

Thanks for the heads up.

I just unloaded. Reloading and making tracks ASAP to get back through Eisenhower tunnel and down to Grand Junction.

From this morning....