What's the craziest weather/natural event you been caught in?

Hold on I think I have a picture!

This is on some #### backroad, in IL I believe, or OH. It was last year. Yup, dispatch got with us there in Chicagoish area. Said we have a hot hot hot load we need you guys to take its just got to be there on time. People are waiting on you to arrive. You guys game?

Yes sir!

Its delivering to a Home Depot, at 11 PM, in January.... and the load is....

WICKER PATIO FURNITURE!?

It started snowing when we got loaded, we tried our best but getting off the main road to the back road was hell. They hadn't plowed, at all. It was pure ice and snow, we had to pack it in. Went to rest area to await some plowing.

PS: Home Depot said that we werent even due till am next day according to their stuff, no one was there at 11PM... ooo id been so mad.


Not the worse though, I had video of the worse. It was in Beach ND. We stopped after the road turned to ice, we had time on the load. But as the next day came it got worse not better, and hubby just HAD to go. We crossed into MT into what literally was the worst weather I have EVER been driven in (I for my part refused to drive). Iced roads, blowing snow, hard winds, and trucks all over the place. Could barely see out window because it kept getting icy rain and snow on it and icing up.

My husband is insane.

 

I think there is a ROAD there some where..... lol

 

I had that happen to me once, 20 MPH down I-81 in 4-wheel drive, there was no road, just taillights and tow trucks, you had to trust the person in front of you to know where the road was, oddly enough the Northbound lane of I-81, was completely clean, I never even saw a plow on the Southbound lane

 

I have been in no less than 10 hurricanes over the years ranging from cat1-3. Is that enough to get me in the group. or did it have to happen on the road?

 

I was in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in July 1999 when a "storm of the century" blew through. The picture below is not mine but it shows what we had to get through to get out. One person died and sixty were injured in the Boundary Waters. It took us over a week to get out.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters-Canadian_Derecho

 

First time on Newfoundland in the blinding snow that started after we left the ferry. It kept getting worse and the next town is about 80 miles.

Could not see much of the road markings and the signs in the dark. If I did not have the GPS which was set to see the close area, I would not have noticed the road turning.

Soon as we got to the town, stopped till the morning.

 

Oh yeah, been in zero visability blizzards, ice storms with 2 inches of ice, straight line 60 mph winds, torndao warnings. About the only thing I havent been in is a hurricane and a true tornado. About the only thing you can do in these situations is slow down to your comfort zone, or just park it until conditions improve, no freight is worth any life no matter how hot it is!

First picture is on state route 177 in new york off of I81 in upstate NY, second one is the ice storm that hit the midwest in January.

 

The second one looks like I 57 southern Illinois.