Just as I was thanking my lucky stars that I wasn't in New York over the weekend, Salt Lake is hit with a slice of winter trauma all it's own. Snow accumulated to as much as six inches over black ice on the roads today and caused a number of remarkably large accidentsWe're told about 45 cars were involved in accidents, most of them in pileups. I-15 northbound had to be closed from Parish Lane through Farmington.That multi car wreck happened at a freeway on ramp in my home town. It closed the freeway and the bottleneck nature of roads through this part of the county send bumper crops of cars along our relatively tiny main streets. I was dreading the drive to school, but left plenty early and started forging my way with the traffic. I stopped to grab a bite to eat and got the call that class had been canceled. Woo Hoo! Hate to take on the extra work, but glad I don't need to keep driving.from a KSL report
As I sat in the parking lot with my sandwich, a wrecker passed me hauling this smashed semi. I met it on the opposite side of the parking lot and snapped this picture with my phone. I assume it was involved in the wreck mentioned above becasue this truck passed me mere minutes after hearing on the radio that I-15 had reopened near my home town. I paused to consider the mangled mess of steel before me and thought "Yep. Glad I'm not driving tonight."
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Hahah... guess what? it took me two hours to get home from piano lessons that day. There were traffic jams at stand-stills in even the most residential parts of bountiful and centerville that I was going through, because they had to close of the free way from 5th south in bountiful to parrish lane in centerville... or i think it was to farmington, but I'm not sure. It was horrible though.
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