Blogging Ottinger (tim)Iowa snow
This is what I did with my Sunday afternoon (from 3pm sunday to about 1:00 monday)
“There’s accidents everywhere,” said Cindi Fox, a communications specialist with the Iowa State Patrol, this morning. “Everyone needs to stay home.”
Little damage, none of it serious? I saw dozens and dozens of freshly-wrecked cars along I80, and quite a few were upside-down or on one side. I remember at least four or five semis that looked as if something very serious had happened indeed. Well, I guess it’s all a matter of what you consider dangerous.
The biggest problem was that there were patches of really, really, really bad road rather than a continuous stretch of them. As a result, people would hit the rough stuff at 50 miles an hour or more, sometimes with cruise control on. If you have cruise or hit your brakes, you’re in for it. Likewise if you’re going 55 when you hit some of these.
