Originally posted by THoog They can't decide if the next storm will be ice-rain-ice or snow-ice-snow. We haven't had a good ice storm in awhile, so the pine trees will probably be snapping left and right. I'm seriously considering just packing the (camera) bag and going south for a couple days, rather than sit around in the dark.
About 4 or 5 years ago I got caught in an ice storm near Raleigh/Durham. I had spent a day running a load of Harrier Jump Jet parts from a warehouse near Kinston down to the Marine base at Cherry Point. I had spent the weekend at a truck stop on 95 Southwest of Wilson, listening to weather reports of doom and gloom. Was supposed to move 2 loads that day but by the time I had loaded and moved the first one it had started to snow and everyone was in panic mode.
I was dispatched to Ravenswood, West Virginia, so I headed for Raleigh/Durham.
Then the ice storm hit.
Everything looked like a glazed donut.
And with an empty 53 foot flatbed trailer I wasn't getting any traction, so I parked it at the Flying J, crawled into the sleeper and caught up on my beauty sleep.