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Truckers Wait Out * USA - Flooding on I-5, at a cost of $4 million a day
Seattle,Wash,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer, by ANDREA JAMES -6 Dec 2007: -- The storm that hit the Puget Sound area Monday is having a devastating effect on commerce after swamping Interstate 5, the main artery that connects Seattle to Portland, and burying in mud several rail connections north and south of Seattle... With hundreds of trucks backed up, the Transportation Department has had to give certain goods priority. For example, the department is working with the Washington State Patrol and local communities to get emergency supplies to hospitals in greater Seattle via alternative routes... Independent truck driver Floyd Chase delivers building materials and shipping containers between Seattle and Portland. He waited around at the exit 71 stop on Tuesday... Chase estimates that he's losing $500 a day waiting for the highways to reopen... "I'm independent -- I'm responsible for the whole thing, the good and the bad," he said. "It's a matter of just sitting and waiting now, unless you want to go 400 miles out of your way, but at $3.50 a gallon, it's not going to pay off"... (Photo AP: Three people are seen on a ramp on the flooded I-5 freeway in Chehalis on Tuesday.)Labels: truckers' losses
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