Telescopist
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On the way to Chilliwack.
Bismarck: Greeted by temperatures in the mid 30's as we packed the 4 Runner this morning. It was drizzling but nothing too bad. The cool thing was that it would be clear sailing all the way to Bozeman on long empty stretches of highway. Except it didn't happen that way. The rain got more intense and then rapidly transitioned to snow. Just like that too. Within a matter of 30 minutes the highway was covered with a nasty mix of freezing slush. Traffic slowed down to around 30 mph. With 500 miles to go I wasn't feeling too optimistic about making it in time to watch game 3 between Golden State & Portland. And the weather got worse. We saw the first of probably 10 vehicles that had lost control and ended up in the medium or a field. Some were flipped over.
I've never seen weather conditions deteriorate so quickly before.
Anyway once we crossed into Montana the snow transitioned back to rain. We made it into Bozeman before game 3 began.
Donna to a sequence of shots of 18 wheeler which blew by us. It was crazy and didn't go well for the driver.
Bismarck: Greeted by temperatures in the mid 30's as we packed the 4 Runner this morning. It was drizzling but nothing too bad. The cool thing was that it would be clear sailing all the way to Bozeman on long empty stretches of highway. Except it didn't happen that way. The rain got more intense and then rapidly transitioned to snow. Just like that too. Within a matter of 30 minutes the highway was covered with a nasty mix of freezing slush. Traffic slowed down to around 30 mph. With 500 miles to go I wasn't feeling too optimistic about making it in time to watch game 3 between Golden State & Portland. And the weather got worse. We saw the first of probably 10 vehicles that had lost control and ended up in the medium or a field. Some were flipped over.
I've never seen weather conditions deteriorate so quickly before.
Anyway once we crossed into Montana the snow transitioned back to rain. We made it into Bozeman before game 3 began.
Donna to a sequence of shots of 18 wheeler which blew by us. It was crazy and didn't go well for the driver.
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