Question:
As many of you have probably heard the midwest once again got hit with a winter storm yesterday (Monday) that dumped more freezing rain and snow on the area. On my way home last night on the I 255 bypass around St Louis the roads themselves were in good shape by the time I traveled them at around 3 am this morning. The shoulders however were still snow packed.
A young lady who was on her way home from work drifted onto the right shoulder of the road just a little bit and that was all she wrote. The snow sucked her car into the concrete retaining/safety wall, which her car bounced off of and spun around two full lanes of roadway and she came to a rest sitting diagnally cross ways in the left two lanes, and right in front of me as I crested a small rise in the road. If I had been taveling at my normal speed there would have been no way for me to stop in time on the wet roads. As it was going 10 miles an hour slower than the posted speed limit it was all I could do to slow enough to get around her.
So be EXTRA careful out there please. You never know what may be over that next little rise in the road.
I will always be a mutter trucker at heart.
Answer:
i was though there monday morning about 6:30 am and needless to say it was a zoo.Road was slick with ice and the idiots were doing there best to wreck each other .I had the radio on and was hearing about wrecks on 70 so i decided to go back 61 40 which was also a mess.Had a lady spin her car right in front of me luckly i missed her as she slid into the ditch .Was sure glad to get out of the area
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