Wed, Jan 28... Mother Nature!

Mother Nature is a force to be reckoned with... Our day started a few miles west of St. Louis, MO and ended close to Nashville, TN.

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Our route today started on I-64, I-57, and I-24. We came through St. Louis, MO, south to Paducah, KY, and east to Nashville, TN. Watching all the weather reports and checking all online sources... we knew it would be slow going for today.

As we were coming through Missouri the sight was snow... and lots of it!



I-57 was treacherous and not only that but you have to deal with people driving cars! I'll admit, I was most likely was one of these exact drivers until I took position in the passenger seat!

I've seen more trucks and cars off the road in one day than I've seen the entire time I've been in this truck. The further southeast we traveled the icier everything was.

There were trucks stuck in snow and ice on the ramps into rest areas, trucks in the median, cars here and there, drivers out trying to shovel their trucks free.... Another driver was reporting his wrecker bill of $1055.00 to get pulled out of a ditch. You didn't read that wrong... yes, one thousand fifty five dollars!


I-57 looked more like an ice skating rink... and it was stop and go traffic all day....

The CB was a constant chatter of traffic stopping, wreckers in the road pulling trucks out, trucks stuck everywhere, and one report of a big truck running a tanker completely off the road. Fellow truckers were quick to post an a CB APB for the hit and run truck!


Here we are in Metropolis, IL (Superman's home). There must have been 1" of ice on the lines and anything that wasn't moving. The newspapers at this rest area were still Monday's... today is Wednesday.




You know it's going to be bad when Jim Cantore, from the Weather Channel, is reporting LIVE from the town you are headed to!

Here we are arriving in Paducah, KY. The CB radio, being our lifeline today, was full of reports and questions from drivers needing fuel, needing road conditions, and questioning if anyone got the phone number off the wrecker going the other direction!



The bright spot to this day was when the day was over... (I'm kidding)... it was a sail boat that someone is redoing... we made a decision that this will be our next ride...


Our day ended at TA close to our delivery place at 7:00 am tomorrow. The night was spent cooking dinner and watching "West Wing". Thank goodness for boxed sets! TV with NO commercials!!!