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I highly advise anyone who is traveling long distance to either beat the storm up here and stay overnight or not travel at all. The light snow + ice patches make the roads brutal to travel.
The last snowstorm in my area two weeks ago was downright nasty.
I was going back up to school and a trip that normally takes 2.5 hours took 5 since I was stuck in traffic jams from accidents and driving at 30mph on the highway.
This one area outside of Monticello we see a minivan on our side of 17 and it's spun around completely. So we take it slowly and a little bit down the road on the other side we see three cars in a fender bender and some other lady's car sitting in a ditch...and she looks frightened.
So we keep on going, even slower, and then we see this white Dodge Ram truck barreling down the other side of the highway. It hits a patch of black ice and the driver loses control and comes barreling through the median right at us.
But before the guy gets to our side of the highway, he hits an embankment coming out of the median and I'm sitting there looking out the backseat window and about eight feet away his truck is sliding on the pavement (upside down) at 30+ mph with sparks flying everywhere. I still remember the grinding sound it made.
He did one barrel roll and landed back in the center of the median, but it's the craziest shit I ever saw.
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