Posted on 01/29/2014 3:53:56 AM PST by topher
Webpage shows quite a few road problems/closures due to weather...
Interstate 10 in Southern Louisiana is a Mess.
Most of the distance from Lafayette to Baton Rouge is a long bridge which has frozen over.
Thursday afternoon, things should be back to normal
Too many bridges frozen over.
Temperatures in low 20's after winter storm full of wintry mix of rain/sleet/ice/snow.
Some Louisiana Parishes (county equivalents) have curfews.
Rare winter storm leaves students, motorists stranded in Deep South
Climate change is settled!!! (12 deg here in Tx)
Might as well, according to my thermometer outside here in central Louisiana, it's 17 degrees, same as Fairbanks, Alaska in the middle of winter.
Darn global warming.
Wow, I’ve seen cold weather shut down south Louisiana (just before Christmas of 1994, IIRC). The New Orleans area was a real mess, but I can’t recall seeing I-10 shut down from border to border. I’ll bet the Mississippi DOT page has similar info for their portion of the corridor - the bridges over the Pearl River and the back of Bay St. Louis ice up pretty easily... I’ve seen that happen even when NOLA was mostly unaffected by the winter weather.
The reason why is the sleeting and precipitation. Icing everything over.
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