Clean hands and a pure heart triumph again
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valarltdI thought this was it.
I really thought this was the day Mom Didn't Make It Home From Work.
It's snowing.
Snowing like we haven't seen in Arkansas in...ever. Snowing like I haven't seen since about 1990.
And blowing.
And I was driving in it.
My trailer skidded out from under me. I felt it go. I countersteered and over-corrected. I countersteered the other way, and figured the two cars beside me had to look out for themselves. By some Hermetic miracle, I stayed on the road, upright, and in my own lane, without hitting them.
Less than a mile later, I passed a rig that wasn't as lucky/skilled/gods-blessed. He'd jackknifed it off into the ditch.
I'm parked at the terminal tonight, still shaky.
Linehaul won't leave until 7 AM, so I don't have to be anywhere until 1030ish.
I really thought this was the day Mom Didn't Make It Home From Work.
It's snowing.
Snowing like we haven't seen in Arkansas in...ever. Snowing like I haven't seen since about 1990.
And blowing.
And I was driving in it.
My trailer skidded out from under me. I felt it go. I countersteered and over-corrected. I countersteered the other way, and figured the two cars beside me had to look out for themselves. By some Hermetic miracle, I stayed on the road, upright, and in my own lane, without hitting them.
Less than a mile later, I passed a rig that wasn't as lucky/skilled/gods-blessed. He'd jackknifed it off into the ditch.
I'm parked at the terminal tonight, still shaky.
Linehaul won't leave until 7 AM, so I don't have to be anywhere until 1030ish.
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Date: 2008-03-08 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-08 02:13 pm (UTC)Today the I-40/I-55 split is closed because 2 rigs jackknifed.
This effectively means all major highway traffic from the west is cut off from Memphis.
Parts of my route are closed today and all of it is ice.
Line-haul (the truck that pulls my trailer up from Mississippi) hasn't even left yet. I'm running tomorrow when it's 50.