Not a real warm welcoming

80 into Utah, not a good day for driving!

(quoted from post at 09:28:01 01/13/20) 80 into Utah, not a good day for driving!
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You are on the wrong end of the state, sunny and 50's down here in St George!

Last time I was in St. George it was 108.

Makes me glad I live in south Texas.

We would like to spend some time in St George in the spring.

Ski hills will be happy. Got your tire chains on?

50s sound more inviting, from Little
America down to Salt Lake was crappy
roads! Now taking a load of salt over to
Englewood CO, kind of can't wait to get
back to the mid west!

Don't see any snow up to the bottom of the head lights ,so it ain't to bad . when i first started running coal bucket back in 1969there were mornings that we were pushing snow with the ft. bumper getting to the mine for fist load . Since we were up and gone before the state boys crawled out of bed . That was fun getting to the mines . Weren't no interstate getting there it was all old back roads , lots of hills and curves , good drive tires locked power divider on non MACKS , Macks ya just went . Then come the fun of getting the load up and out of the mine and up the hills . Two places we loaded out of last truck stayed behind to see if the first truck made the hill and if not then he would bring the loader with a full bucket of slack coal for the weight and to apply to the hill for traction . Most of us ran and air axle on the trailer And would carry it in the air dumping 25-30000 more on the drives . Only a couple times that we had to get help up a hill from the 988 and a couple times we had to hoff it in to get the 988 to open the road in due to small drifting in a couple places that had to be dug out with a 16-20 foot drift a quarter mile long .

You should have come on up into Idaho. I think we had about every school district in the snake river valley shut down because of the blowing and drifting snow. I 15 was shut down just before you go into Montana,and several of the state roads were shut down. We had a winter storm warning saying we could get gusts up to about 45mph, but I only saw about 25 or so. Just have to enjoy it.

Steven

Ditto in N. Tx. Watch the Weather channels (214 and 215 on Dish) with my noon time snack and brrrrrrrrrr. Hats off to you folks that are used to it and have made it a way of life. I guess it's all about how/where you were raised and what you get used-tp.

I liked running out there in the winter. Always seemed Like I got a lot of oversized loads going that way in the winter. I used to run across US 12 from Lewiston ID to MT or US 30 from Little America to McCammon ID. Came down US 93 to Id 28 . Also would run US12 out through TO WA then turned south a Pasco to OR into Pendleton.
I never had to chin up ever. If it was that bad it was usually closed for oversized loads anyway.