Whiteout.......

Yesterday was a miserable winter day. The kind of day you want to never see. The day with lots of winter advisories, blizzard warnings, wind advisories, etc. Our area was under a winter weather watch. It turned out to be a full blown blizzard!

Daryl had to do a short run yesterday. Then when he got home he was to swap trucks and be in Missouri by 8 am today.

All went well til the wind started. The past few days fluffy snow caused a mess with the high winds. And made it complete whiteout conditions.

Then they let school out. (And had a late start today.) The picture above is from Daryl's cellphone. He was following a SUV and it had just stopped right on the road. It took him 45 minutes to travel 3 miles!!! As you could barely see the vehicle in front of you.

Daryl was very relieved to finally reach a town so he could park the truck safely. His rig is just a huge white moving target in something like that!!! Eventually he made it across the town to the truck stop.

When the winds died down again he headed for home. He showered and was out the door again. Of course he was determined he could make it with a loaded trailer so he was on his way ........

He did make it through all the drifts along the way. And is right on schedule.

This morning the news showed a 27 vehicle pile up in an area Daryl went through. Yikes!

So goes another winter day in South Dakota.............