The large winter storm moving through the area is more towards the South of us but the fringe is still hitting us hard. Crappy cell phone snaps, please bear with me. This morning around 0430. 40 mph in a 80 mph zone.
And damn little after 5 am.
South of Kimball, NE. Highway 71. Strange day - the wind was from the East. Hold my beer moment when a jackass trucker missed his turn, stopped dead, then started backing up. Prius vs 53' trailer? Didn't like those odds.
Something to make a car collector cry. Scottsbluff NE. 57' Chevy convertible.
The place has cabbage burgers but not at 0900 when I gas up.
486 miles, and I get to do it tomorrow and Wednesday. The wind wasn't bad today but the forecast for tomorrow is for worse weather.
The man who drives Wed to Saturday spent 40 years driving big rigs in 49 States and most Provinces. We are two old silver-backs but have the jobs because we are "seasoned". The other "kids" want our routes. Not happening. Our routes are the branch's most lucrative and for the most demanding client. The managers leave us alone and the job gets done every day no matter what the weather throws at us.
I'm nearly finished paying off the deductibles and co pays on the pacemaker but think I will keep the job until summer or I win the lottery.
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Looks nasty out that way WSF!
Remember, slow and steady wins the race. (And stays out of ditches!)
No need to say it because you know it, but be careful out there. The buried ice and get the best of us. I want the '57 rag-top. The man should he beat for doing that. The money spent hoisting it up there and securing it could have fixed it up just fine.
Slow has never been in WSF's vocabulary. Steady...yes. He has always run just under the red line. Too late to retrain him now.
Sisty
Don't like ditches, no sir!
Some day when I have time I will try to get the story behind it.
You know me too well.
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