South Dakota Storm

Well, Sometimes trucking is driving down the road and sometimes trucking is sitting on your butt in the middle of South Dakota in a nasty ass storm. We are headed to Spokane, Washington, and we were supposed to be there today, but we ran straight into the nastiness that is South Dakota. We got into Mitchell just as the wind was really starting to hit and the rain was coming in. We topped off our fuel tanks, and found a nice parking spot about 2:00 yesterday afternoon and we haven't moved since.

The freeway is currently closed from about 10 miles east of us to about 400 miles west of us. So, even if we wanted to be stupid and try to drive in this mess, we couldn't go anywhere. Some trucks are being stupid and taking the county roads around the freeway to stay moving, but I can't imagine that that is a very smart thing to be doing. But, we know that many truck drivers are not the most brilliant of individuals. There isn't much snow where we are, but the wind is awful and it is a sheet of ice due to all the rain before the temps dropped. West of us in Rapid City, they have 47 inches of snow. plus 70 mile and hour winds, not power and temps are dropping below 0. That is where we are heading, so we are probably going to be sitting for another day or 2. The roads will probably open up around us mid day, but further down the road doesn't look good for a few more days. We are going to go into the truck stop in a couple of hours and take a shower, have some lunch at the restaurant, buy a few snacks and come back to truck and hunker down again for the night.

Poor Taz is having the worst time of it. He needs to poop and it is soooo freakin' cold that all we can get him to do is pee and he is begging to get back in the truck. I have an old towel that I think I am going to put on the ground for him and see if he will be able to stand on the ground long enough that he will do something. The trials in the life of poor little ole' dog in the winter.

So, that is the the update for today. I will probably be calling a bunch of you, because I am starting to get bored. So, be prepared. heehee Love you all, T