Have some of our sun, mate - New Year's Eve and the forecast is for
42degC so we're bunkered down and listening out for the fire sirens.
Some fools are going to the beach to get their skin burned off, of
course.
Should be a lively night in town tonight though - think I'll stay
well clear, photo-ops notwithstanding.
AndrewF
(Snow - what's that?)
On 31/12/2005, at 1:41 PM, James McBride wrote:
> My son rented a snowcat for a trip into Yellowstone tomorrow so I
> drove up
> to the cabin tonight. It was snowing hard but things were going
> well until
> about three miles from my turnoff where traffic was stopped. Two
> semi-trucks
> were off the road at the same place on both sides and had the whole
> road
> blocked. A third one then wrecked at almost the same spot. I sat
> there for
> almost two hours while the mess was resolved. On the radio the
> truckers were
> bitching about the poor drivers in cars that they were forced to
> deal with.
> I reminded them that we were sitting there because three of their
> compatriots had driven off a perfectly straight road and that
> quieted them
> momentarily. This country is a tough baptismal for truckers (and other
> drivers) not used to slick and snowy roads. Add a little wind and a
> lightly
> loaded truck, usually going too fast, and they mess up the nice
> neat berms
> the plows make. With a little luck I can make the remaining 20
> miles to West
> Yellowstone in the morning before the cat leaves. If the road is
> closed this
> is a great place to be snowed in. We have about three to four feet
> of snow
> now and it will be snowing for the next several days. I don't know
> how much
> time there will be for photography tomorrow but I'll take an OM-1N
> with a
> 60-300mm Tamron zoom and my little weather proof digital Stylus. It
> would be
> nice to get some sun but that doesn't look too likely. /jmac
>
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