Tales from the Road

Harvey wrote

Unreal drive from the Cats tonight. Accidents everywhere.

I hope everyone is ok tonight.

An extra hour and twenty on what is normally a 2:10 drive for us.  Roads weren't awful but I'm sure people were driving too fast for the conditions, their vehicles and their driving skill. We left late and didn't see any accidents, just felt their impact. (No pun intended).

Long, slow trip.

Yeah left Belle at 4:30 and got back to maplewood around 9:30 (I stopped at both rest stops to clean my wipers), only to have to shovel the walk..

Whats the deal with all the people that drive with their emergency flashers on these days?  Has the internet told them to put these on if there is snow on the road?

With three weeks on my new all seasons I dominated yesterday.  Drove through a brutal storm downstate, cars were in the ditch all over the place.

At one point I was following a pickup/plow (he wasn't plowing) for at least 10 miles on 87.  All of a sudden he starts to fishtale, slams the steel barrier on skiers right, slides all the way across the road and slams the guardrail on the other side and bounces back into the middle.

Then, inexplicably, he drives for about a mile, just tooling along.  Then he throws on his flashers, drives another mile, and then pulls over.  I probably should have stopped to see if he was ok, but I was kind of wigged out too, and kept driving.

I love that f'n kind of ROI.

87 is a parking lot, Google maps talking us on an interesting alternative.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/388/rest-stop