Winter Storm

Sorry, my mistake, the rest areas are closed, I-80 is open with chain controls. Looks like a big crowd came to the show.

I-80 in Wyoming opened today although it was closed to high-profile light traffic due to the winds. I'm fairly heavy so I was going to go across until I got a phone call from my dispatcher. I was in western Nebraska and they told me to go to Cheyenne, head south on I-25 to 70, to 15 and head south to Barstow, across to Bakersfield and up to the port that way. I asked why because I'm short on recap hours...this route adds 235 more miles, and they said because Donner was getting hit and would be for a couple days. I'm so glad I don't have to chain up on this trip. I've done it three times already.

Laura

Sorry, my mistake, the rest areas are closed, I-80 is open with chain controls. Looks like a big crowd came to the show.

Yep, you westward driving peeps can keep that mess. Hard pass for me. I like the scenery in CA, but the mountain driving... Most definitely not anything that I aspire to do with regularity.

Sorry, my mistake, the rest areas are closed, I-80 is open with chain controls. Looks like a big crowd came to the show.

Harvey, I hope everyone views the link you included. Very interesting.

I read a newspaper article about the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab updates (located near Donner Pass on I-80) so looked for more current information and found their Twitter page had some impressive figures and a graphic map. This Twitter post was made within the past hour.

We've had 21.9" (55.5 cm) of new #snow in the last 24 hrs, 31.1" (79 cm) in the last 48 hrs, and 72.4" (184 cm; over 6 feet) in the last week!

Some great looking seasonal (Oct 1 - now) totals so far. Some locations above April 1 SWE average!

Still more coming down, looks like we may get a break in 11 days.

I’m currently in Saint Albans, VT. It has been snowing since last night. Roads are messy and slick.

I delivered this morning and had to put the traction socks on to get docked on a slight incline. Kept spinning without them. Tried locking the differential, etc.

I originally went to customer last night to deliver 2 hrs early to appointment. The load was rejected due to an issue with the trailer seal. Claims Dept got it sorted out this morning so I could deliver.

Now parked waiting on a load assignment, which is okay with me to allow I-89 to get cleaned up.