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WEATHER TROUBLES * USA - Flooding stalls Brooks-based truckers
Salem,OR,USA -The Statesman Journal, by Stacey Barchenger -January 9, 2009: -- About 75 loads at May Trucking Company — of everything from toilet paper to refrigerated food — are stranded in Oregon and Washington, waiting for the day they will be able continue travel along Interstate 5... Officials expect that day to be Monday... Flooding that has closed 20 miles of Interstate 5 in Washington has left truck drivers for the Brooks-based company with no option but to wait it out, at either end... (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson - Interstate 5 is covered by the flooding Chehalis River Thursday morning, Jan. 8, 2009, in Chehalis, Wash. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures from rapid snowmelt and the three main highways across the Cascade Range were closed)* Truckers idled as high waters swamp roadways - Companies losing thousand of dollars a day as big rigs wait for passable routes
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Vancouver,WA,USA -The Columbian, by CAMI JONER -January 8, 2009: -- Gary Shope sat in his big Peterbilt truck cab for the second day late Thursday afternoon near the Ridgefield exit on Interstate 5 with a load of bottled water waiting to get north... But Shope and hundreds of others like him were in park and going nowhere because of the floodwaters swamping 20 miles of the interstate farther north... All that truckers like Shope could do was let time go by and watch money go down the drain... That could add up to as much as $12,500 in one day for Tatom’s company, which daily sends about 25 semi-trailer rigs on routes between the Vancouver area and Seattle. Rising water from heavy rainfall earlier this week closed a stretch of I-5 near Chehalis, while melting snow and avalanches closed the alternative I-90 route, which cuts east from Seattle through the Cascades, according to the Associated Press...
* Trucks will be first on I-5 at Centralia
Centralia,Wash,USA -The Seattle Times -8 Jan 2009: -- The Transportation Department is moving hundreds of freight trucks into position to move when Interstate 5 reopens at noon through Chehalis. A spokeswoman, Melanie Coon, says many trucks carry perishable goods, including live chickens. After the trucks get rolling, the freeway will reopen to passenger cars... (AP Photo by Elaine Thompson - A barn and house are surrounded by Chehalis River flood water Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, in Chehalis, Wash. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures from rapid snowmelt and the three main highways across the Cascade Range were closed)Labels: weather troubles
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