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Sitting here near Rolla, MO at the Road Ranger truckstop on I-44 about 80 miles safely south of the blizzard. Ran into a bit of rain getting here, and now some wind blown drizzle, but that was it.
Thank God!!!
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3 hours ago, pawatch said:
Kind of scarey when it feels like your tractor wheels are starting to break...safe travels!
It sure is, and thanks!
Now if can only get out of Weis in Milton. Seven hours to get unloaded today, and all for a load that someone else got paid the miles (from Bakersfield CA) on. I'm beyond pissed off...
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2 hours ago, canderson said:
If you’re on interstates I think you’ll be ok. .1” ice on a heavily trafficked road usually doesn’t cause issues imo.
If I take 70/76, I'll probably go down 11/15 to 81 to Carlisle, although 11/15 is a major road in it's own right. I just really hate and somewhat fear ice. If there is any winter precip that scares me it's freezing rain.
Looking at models, it does look to be brief, but I'll likely be rolling somewhere right at the onset...
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2 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:
Of course. Boarder to boarder. Doesn't matter which way I go (I-80 or I-70/76), I can possibly run into some icy conditions as the timing is just right...
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Lowest we got here this morning was 10, so no single digits for my backyard.
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This "blows chunks" as I have to roll Saturday morning by 6am from Wilkes-Barre down to Milton for an 8am delivery at Weis Markets, then pick up across the Susquehanna in Lewisburg before heading west to New Mexico. CTP's latest discussion does NOT look good for my morning travels...
It`s looking more likely that an icy mix will arrive Saturday morning and could make for disruptive and potentially hazardous post-Thanksgiving travel. The retreating arctic airmass is to blame as cold air remains entrenched in the low levels across the interior Alleghenies. Cold ground/surface temperatures may also be a contributing factor for an ice glaze as readings slowly rebound from single digits and teens just 24hrs prior to onset. Ptypes should trend to all rain by Saturday afternoon.
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Graupel in Tamaqua, but light. Not a squall, yet.
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2 hours ago, CarlislePaWx said:
Laurels look ok depending on how early in the day you reach them. Forecast is precip starts as snow well before dawn then switches to rain with a forecast high in Johnstown of 46. There is no mention of freezing rain in their forecast at this point. Around here I think any freezing rain at the very start will be very short-lived as temps will warm up rapidly as precip gets going. As you can read CTP not even mentioning ZR for my area at all, just rain. That could be because we are too far out for them to accurately call for a several-hour period of ZR when we're 72+ hours out from the start.
10 minutes ago, irvingtwosmokes said:You should be in good shape coming through here. Also 219 to Maryland opens tomorrow
Thanks guys! I'm going to probably leave out of our terminal around 6am. I'm guessing I'll be going through there late morning. We see how things go I guess.
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11 hours ago, Wmsptwx said:
Freezing rain possible from sounds of it.
No.....
I go back out in the truck on Saturday morning. Picking up in Lewisburg going to Albuquerque. Was going to take 80 out to Ohio, but now may go south on 11/15 to Harrisburg/Carlisle and take the Pike west. Only thing is the Laurels?
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Sitting here at the Flying J in Brookville on I-80 watching it snow...
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2 hours ago, Superstorm said:
83 between MD and Harrisburg is one of the worst sections of roads in PA. Just as bad or worse than Schuylkill Expressway in Philly area. Bad weather or sunny and dry weather.
I 100% agree with this.
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Apparently, per Facebook reports, we had thunder here when the CCB rolled through. If so, I was sleeping and missed it...
Other than that, we got about a 1/4 inch of sleet after the changeover last night, and right at 1 inch from the CCB. Puts the total frozen for the event at 7.75 inches in my backyard.
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5 minutes ago, canderson said:
Thanks. So tractor-trailers are the issue. Geez, way to go @Voyager!
Not me...
I was safely tucked away here at home for this one. I had a new roof put on the house this week and decided to take the whole week off. I'm SO glad I did. Had I come back out of the house today I probably would have a noon appointment to pick up a load, and since it takes 2-3 hours to load, would have been out there at the WORST possible time. I'm uploading a short video to Youtube about it now.
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A light mix of sleet and freezing rain now. It flipped shrtly after my last post, so 6.5" and in a holding pattern for now.
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12 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:
And to think, you seemed concerned about busting low lol.
Yup...
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6.5" so far here. Still snowing, but not as hard. The worst part is it's total gridlock on the roads. Every major hill here around Tamaqua is shut down.
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7 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:
This is what happens when NOBODY takes the weatherman seriously. The only thing that will get companies to begin closing up and/or making their staff work from home (assuming they can) when this **** happens is a ****load of people dying as a result of their obligation to show up.
Unless this is a series of Ambulances stranded on the road, nobody really needed to be out in this.
My wife is still at work. Wish they'd have let her go early. I am glad I took the week off as we we're getting a new roof. Better to be home than piloting a big rig, although my time will come eventually.
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Tamaqua...
5 inches now and still heavy snow here. Pretty much been at inch/hour rates most of the afternoon.
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5 inches now and still heavy snow here. Pretty much been at inch/hour rates most of the afternoon.
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22 minutes ago, pasnownut said:
See. I wouldnt lie to ya.
I know. You always wonder when the temp is going up and it hasn't started yet.
Just went out to measure, and I have 3.25" already and it only started at 11:40am.
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For once I can say "it's puking snow up here"...lol
And it is. Big, beautiful dendrites that are piling up rather quickly. I'm guessing, since I didn't measure yet, that we have between 1 and 2 inches down already. Also the temp dropped from 31f right before it started to 27f now.
What's amazing is how cold this one is. Other November storms that I remember were warmer. I was outside doing a video segment in my backyard, and it felt more like January than November.
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4 minutes ago, canderson said:
Roads SUUUUUUUUCK.
Avoid any main road or interstate around Harrisburg - you’re going nowhere on them.
Yeah, Google Maps traffic is UGLY...
Every road is dark red, accidents everywhere, and it looks like I-83 northbound is closed going up over Reeser's Summit
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3 minutes ago, RedSky said:
That is pretty incredible i must say and funny
There shouldn't have been any warm layers anywhere there
I was kind of shocked, honestly. We're all snow now, but the initial shot was pellets.
Central PA Fall 2018
in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
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Indeed, and I'll take it for now. Sooner or later I'll not be so fortunate.