All you Snow people up there in the north been telling us southern Freepers we don’t know how to drive in snow and ice.
What happened?
Yikes, what a mess. It’s good that apparently no one was killed or even seriously hurt, but still. What a mess!
Worst in PA Turnpike History.
And it was a sunny day, above freezing and the road LOOKED good.
Oh crap. I bet that Fed Ex truck is THE ONE with my package on it.
Was Joe Biden driving on the turnpike by any chance?
Christie’s Fault! Oh, wait... ;)
Is this anywhere near Allentown?
(... whew ...)
One year we had ice on the road here in southeastern Texas. My husband was in the hospital and due to get out the next day. I was glad I didn’t have to get out of the house and down a bunch of ice covered steps to get to the car and wouldn’t have to try to drive up the hill from the house to the subdivision road which had ice and stay on that road to get to a county road that might or might not have ice on it.
So, I get a call from husband and he says come get him as there are so many people hurt from road accidents, they need his room and the hospital kicked him out.
I thought about that and wondered how my becoming another accident sending me to that hospital was going to help their situation. Did they think he was magically going to leave the hospital and be home?
There was a bag of salt there and I had to put that to make a path on the porch and then salt down each step. I sort of threw it out there and waited a bit and got to the car without broken bones. I drove half on and half off the road to get up the hill and crept along the county road to get to the interstate highway and did not kill myself on the way to the hospital - no thanks to the hospital.
I’ve thought about that and think I should have called the hospital and told them I couldn’t get there so give him a bed somewhere. I let the hospital make a bad decision for me. I wouldn’t do that again.
Driven the Pennsylvania Turnpike over many years in all types of weather. Early last June my wife and I were driving from Cincinnati to Westchester County NY for a wedding. We were on I-70 to where it connects with the PA Turnpike near New Stanton (SE of Pittsburgh) thence on to I-81 east of Harrisburg. Heavy rain the entire distance along that portion of the Turnpike. Very high volume of traffic, particularly truck traffic, driving at high speed in spite of the conditions. Several accidents, one particularly bad, that caused significant delays. The PA Turnpike is narrow by most interstate highway standards, combine this with sharp curves and hilly conditions and you have a recipe for problems, especially in poor weather. I should add the PA Turnpike was originally built in the 1930’s. It’s very picturesque but given a weather issue can be a very tense drive.