Posted on 04/17/2015 5:52:09 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
A 150-mile stretch of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins, Wyoming, remained closed Friday afternoon, more than 20 hours after major wrecks involving dozens of semi trucks forced police to close it down.
Blinding, blowing snow hit southern Wyoming Thursday, creating impossible driving conditions that police say likely led to a series of three wrecks along the interstate. More than 30 commercial vehicles and 12 passenger cars were involved.
Photos show the semi trucks piled up on one another. No one was killed, but about a dozen people were hospitalized.
Poor weather continued to hammer the area into Friday, complicating the cleanup effort, and forcing WHP to keep the interstate shutdown. They urged anyone planning to drive through the area to check www.wyoroad.info beforehand.
The system brought winter-like weather into the Rockies and High Plains Thursday into Friday, dusting the Denver foothills with a few inches of snow, and dumping at least 45 inches at Snowbird ski resort in Utah.
When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight.
And THAT, my FRiends, is what made this Irish Eskimo move to Florida!
Looks like Wyoming does no better in WET snow than Atlanta.
Phhtttt!
Cant tell you how many times I drove that short stretch..between Cheyenne and Laramie. Might be just east of Laramie also.
This looks to be west of Cheyenne just before the Lincoln monument. After that, you drop down the grade into Laramie. The grade runs all the way down to Laramie.
Laramie is the coldest place I have ever lived in.
It's "climate change", with "rising temperatures"...
Well, except in southern Wyoming, and other locales. LOL! :)
aka “Gruber Warming”...
Warm globally, cool locally!
LOL!
I’ve driven across that stretch of road thousands of times in an 18 wheeler. IMO one of the most dangerous stretches of road in the US, in summer due to high winds, and winter due to snow. Sometimes it’s like a blizzard across there even with no snow falling because of the wind blowing it around. In hazardous weather I would bypass that area by running old Hwy 30 from Laramie to Rawlins. There’s a saying in Wyoming.. “Snow in Wyoming never melts, it just blows around until it wears out”.
Reality is racist, sexist, and homophobic.
A cousin and her husband run Michigan-Kansas City with Ford parts. Five days a week they live in the truck.
Atlanta is still the worst.
Luckily it is Global Warming snow which is much less dangerous.
Jackalopes.
That’s what caused this.
You all know me. You know I can get rid of them jackalopes.
It’ll cost you two hundred dollars.
And some spaghetti. The good kind. With meatballs.
That’s a nasty damn hill east outside of Laramie.
The elevation up on top is somewhere around 6000 feet and when the snow flies and the wind blows you better not be out there
Two of my children and one granddaughter all
graduated from the U. of W. in Laramie. They referred to that stretch of the interstate as the “Sno Chi Minh” trail. It can be really vicious.....summer and winter.
Oh,man-—that’s brutal.
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To paraphrase Tom Hanks in “League of Their Own” - ‘THERE IS NO SNOW IN GLOBAL WARMING IN WYOMING IN APRIL’ - Zip, Zero, Nada.
It’s all photoshopped says Al Gore. I only wish Gore was photoshopped.
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