Wind Wind Wind

We have been enjoying the sunny warm California weather for the past few weeks, but our luck has ended. We have been in the wind and the rain lately. We accepted a load leaving the Los Angeles area going up north and have had to leave with the roads flooded.

Wind and ice are two of the worst weather conditions for me out here on the road.

We left our customers in the pouring down rain and headed for I-5 but first we had to maneuver some very flooded side roads.  It appeared as if the storm drains were actually pumping the water out of them as they could not handle anymore water.  The sides of the streets had rivers that actually had what looked like some pretty severe rapids in them.  We finally made it to the Grapevine and started up over the pass.  Luckily all that we had on the pass was rain and no wind or snow.  We delivered our load up north in Eureka, CA and headed back down south towards Sacramento.  I felt lucky as when I came back I saw there had been some snow, but the roads were clear.  They we took a short load heading south and boy did we hit the wind.  Saw a few trailers that were laid over in the ditches and sure wished our load weighed more.  The wind really rocks the truck as other trucks go by and tries to pull you into them and then they get past and then they get past and the wind hits you again.  We made it through and delivered our load, and then off we went to a truck stop to wait out the storm.
 
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