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Originally Posted by Brunnie
Why, in the name of sweet Fannie Adams, were the trucks still driving on the road? The truckers I know huddle up in a truck stop or rest area parking besides each other for protection.
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Originally Posted by Brunnie
With all the modern technology used in traffic control something like a "High Wind Warning" would be posted on the electronic signs over the highway.
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The signs were telling drivers to get off the road. But truckers can be as hard headed as RVers. "I've driven in high winds before, I can handle this."
If you've never been to Amarillo, highway warning signs and truck stops outside the city are few and far between.
The only fatalities I've heard about were near Canyon - on I-27 25-35 miles south of I-27.
Most of the flip videos appear to be north/south bound travel, probably I-27 or US-287, not east/west on I-40.
There was a 95 mph gust recorded east of Las Cruces NM on the highway headed to Alamogordo (US-70). Occurred in San Augustine Pass just west of the White Sands Army base.
The one I find kind of funny, at about 24 seconds is the one with the trucker cranking down the front legs of the trailer. Not shown in that video, but on several news outlets is that once he got the legs down - the winds flipped the trailer completely off the truck.
It appears to me that most of the flipping rigs are empty. Which of course means they flip first in high winds.
I went through a thunderstorm line in New Mexico on I-10 in September 2020. East bound between Lordsburg and Deming.
The interstate was basically blocked because all the trucks and RVs stopped.
None flipped, but I did see two big rig trucks pushed off the road by flood waters crossing over the main west bound lanes of I-10. When we were allowed to pass near Exit 68, the water was about 5 inches deep in the eastbound lanes. (Flooding was caused by heavy rains up near Silver City.)
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