What's your most memorable blizzard ?

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  1. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Mine was probably the winter of 95 when the eastern Dakotas got hammered .
    Took me a week to go from Omaha to grand forks and back , parts of I 29 looked like a tunnel the snow was so deep.
     
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  3. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    Christmas Eve, 2011 I think - coming back from California to Joplin - we ran 10 and 20 to Abilene to try and skirt around it - no joy.

    Drove around barricades in Oklahoma and slogged on through. Had a Bosnian driver following us - telling me "Man - you CRAZY" . . .

    Got in late Christmas Day - beat.
     
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  4. cnsper

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    1987 going through Idaho, all or a sudden there was a big black box in front of me. Maybe I should have waited until daylight...lol
     
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    I don't remember, it's blurred
     
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  6. bzinger

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    Don't drive around barricades in North Dakota , hell of a fine and you are on your own until the roads become plowable ... Minnesota too.
     
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    Montana..somewhere between Spokane and Missoula. I had to stick my head out to see til I pulled over and scrapped my windshield clean. Town Pump had those meatballs they sell, it was a good day!
     
  8. stayinback

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    Memorable in a truck?

    That East Coast disaster in early 1994- January I think?

    Anyway- So much Snow and Ice Everywhere......I-80 in Pennsylvania had 18's flipped over from Barkeyville to East Stroudsburg........- Rte 222 has 12 inches of ICE that Made a trek from Reading back to York a Disaster!!

    Ohio, New York and Maryland were Cars n Trucks Every mile off the Road or flipped
     
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  9. Pintlehook

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    The famed Saint Patrick's Day blizzard of '93 in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Yuck.
     
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  10. bzinger

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    Xmas day of 09 comes to mind too on 80 across iowa , blizzard also and drifts across the road ..ripped off an an airline under the tractor and limped into sapp bros in co bluffs before I could go home .
    When I got out of sapps I just plowed into the local pamida lot and let it sit with the apu on ...drifts were about 4 ft high .
     
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  11. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Mine was the Winter of 1994. I drove all over the upper Midwest. One night I drove on I-66 near Front Royal, VA. There was slush in the left lane for almost 100 feet. That was the only snow I saw all year.
     
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