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Do things like this happen in Posted by Delta on 1/28/2026, 5:49 pm other places in the country or is it just the South? Mississippi got hit with several inches of pure freezing water over a period of 2 days and 3 nights. Even preparing as well as they could and trying hard they still can't get ice off the highways but people are still trying to traverse the ice. It is what they do when thy can't that boggles me. Message from MDOT: {Mississippi Department of Transportation} “We still have vehicles stranded on the roads on I22 and I55. 51 has mostly resolved itself. The problem is 18 wheelers. We had drivers unhitch their trailers and leave them on the interstate in the road, we had truck drivers stop to look at the conditions and not be able to get back going, our crews just ran into an 18 wheeler on the interstate who’s blocking traffic and they woke the driver up an he said he didn’t feel safe driving so he parked it in the middle of 55 and went to bed…. Either way, our chief engineer is on his way up now with our district engineers and crews from far south Mississippi. We have contractors bringing milling machines used to tear up pavement with the hope that it will break the ice up so we can plow it. 2) The national guard went out last night and even some of their military vehicles struggled with traction. 3) We are deploying all of our chemical (salt and others) from South Mississippi to the north, too. 4) The best thing is for people to stay off the road. Yesterday, I watched a tow truck block the only cleared lane of 55N to remove a commercial vehicle that was 50 feet off the road and not a safety hazard. It blocked traffic, caused wrecks and miles of traffic backups.”

How could the truck driver just go to sleepp... Posted by Beverly on 1/29/2026, 2:23 pm, in reply to "Do things like this happen in " after blocking the road.. Welcome to crazy town. LOL It all sounds awful.

I agree totally, Beverly Posted by Delta on 1/29/2026, 4:58 pm, in reply to "How could the truck driver just go to sleepp..." It is unfortunate. Walmart hired a service to plow their parking lots late at night so that no one would be on them because they wanted the whole parking lot cleared. He couldn't do his job for so many pick-ups doing donuts. He took a video. There were so many that they didn't have room to do a donut and were all crashing into each other. Law enforcement had to be called. Can people not think for themselves anymore?

LOL! Posted by Joan on 1/29/2026, 7:23 am, in reply to "Do things like this happen in " I'm sorry, I know it's not funny, but is there any chance that truck driver who parked in the middle of 55 and went to bed is from Florida??? That sure sounds like something the "Florida Man" would do! Thanks for the morning chuckle, although I'm not sure that was your intention.

They didn't say but Posted by Delta on 1/29/2026, 4:51 pm, in reply to "LOL!" I did notice that the northbound lane had many more cars on the interstate than the southbound lanes. As a matter of fact, police were helping people across the median to the southbound lanes, where people went to hotels and wherever they could find a warm place to stay for a few days. Everyone should have stayed where it was warmer until this is all over. Usually, give it a day or two. This time has been rather long. By the time it is over, it will probably be 10 days or more. I can't believe that there are people who are so stupid as to think something like that is safe. I guess he thought that if he couldn't drive on it, no one could.

I don’t understand why… Posted by Cindy on 1/29/2026, 12:57 am, in reply to "Do things like this happen in " People feel they have to get out in weather like that either! And most of them are just driving around to be driving around. I listen when the weatherman tells me to stay home. We didn’t get near the snow expected either -but the wind chill was no joke. All that being said-the younger generation doesn’t know what a real winter in Kansas used to be like. When I was young (I know I am sounding like my mom now!) we had WINTER! And it started before Thanksgiving and didn’t let up until late April. Snow, snow, snow. And we went to school and most of the time had to go outside for recess! And then we came home and had chores to do!

I was telling my husband that Posted by Delta on 1/29/2026, 4:43 pm, in reply to "I don’t understand why…" if people had stayed home the way they were telling them to, the flu, RSV, colds, and COVID might have settled down a little, not to mention weather-related deaths would have been cut way down.

Same Cindy!! Posted by Cindyh on 1/29/2026, 5:46 am, in reply to "I don’t understand why…" Why didn’t seasons change so much?? In fall I used to be able to open my windows and enjoy a nice fall Breeze and listen to the leaves blowing around. I miss my spring and falls.

What a mess!! Posted by Cindyh on 1/28/2026, 9:31 pm, in reply to "Do things like this happen in " I don’t know if you got freezing rain or sleet. I’m guessing freezing rain because it’s worse. We had some of each and some snow but mostly snow and sleet but MODOT was on it. They are more used to it though. Our map is almost all green clear with some light blue mostly clear. We are lucky. Some places set records an hour away with 14.5 inches of snow. We didn’t have as much because of all the ice. They could keep the ice.

We got Posted by Delta on 1/29/2026, 3:43 am, in reply to "What a mess!!" about 5 inches of snow, give or take a bit, then before it got out of here on Sunday afternoon we got a few hours of wintry mix making what was there a solid sheet of ice but none on the trees or lines. Mississippi is worse off because the northern part of the state got constant freezing rain from Friday night until Sunday night. They had over an inch of ice on everything so everything is coming down everywhere. Some places have lots of hills and several inches of ice. They salted before it started, but it didn't help. They tried bulldozers and plows to scrape the interstates, but that didn't help. Since we are supposed to get more cold weather and possibly snow or ice starting tomorrow night, they are bringing in those machines that chew up asphalt, hoping it can chew the ice without hurting the pavement. Things got better yesterday, but after last night, it was even worse. I just wish people would stay home, but if not, at least don't park in the middle of the interstate and go to sleep.

So right! Posted by Cindyh on 1/29/2026, 5:44 am, in reply to "We got " I’ve never in my life, until now heard of anyone doing that. Sounds like you got basically what we got.

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