Millis OTR journal

I was on a two lane road in Nebraska. When I got to Nebraska it wasn't snow but it had snowed recently. The roads were snow covered. With a layer of ice underneath so ever time I go to stop I kept going.

Then it started to snow. It was light at first then it became heave. I was driving in a complete whiteout at times. Needless to say I was stressed out.

I came up on stopped traffic. The road was shutdown while they cleared two wrecked trucks. When I came up on it was 11 in the morning. They cleared it at around nine at night.

In the mean time the snow had drifted up on me. I was stuck. I know I was stuck earlier. The officials said they would pull me out once the wreck was cleared of course they forgot.

The Sheriff came by and told I was stuck until tomorrow. It was too dangerous to send the tow trucks out. I was stuck just seven miles from my delivery.

 

I was going to Schuyler NE.

 

There was no hard work involved. I just got stuck. I didn't use chains and no one else had them on either. I was just one of the unlucky few to get stuck. Believe me I do not like driving in snow.

 

I don't really get that far West very often.

 

Years ago, there was a freak snowstorm on March 1, that buried the Chicago area. I was headed east out of the Windy, got as far as about mile 6 in Indiana on 94, and came to a dead stop. Power was out, or I would have walked back to the truckstop at about mile 4.No power meant they were shut down. I had a daycab, and sat there, from about 3 in the afternoon, til about 12 the next day. Wrecks, people stuck, and just walking away from their vehicles was what happened.

 

Most days that area is fricking crazy even on the good weather days I can’t imagine being stuck there for that long especially during a snow storm! As Steeler J. said OMG!