
So here I am being a single parent again. Jake left for Boise Idaho yesterday and will be gone until next week sometime. Yesterday started out as a bad day for him. when we got up to get ready it was snowing not just a little bit but enough that the grass was fully covered in less than a half hour. We get him to the plant so that he could leave and not have the car parked there for over a week. They were finally leaving the plant Jake being the leader of the convoy of about 10 trucks. They get to were I-215 merges with I-80 heading west bound to get to I-15 and Jake sees a car side swipe another car in all of the snowy mess of the roads. Jake avoids the mess of the accident and gets on the radio to let all of the other drivers know of the accident and the the road is really slippery. So the second truck in line gets through and then a car decides to stop in the middle of the lane to check on the original cars that were in the accident so the third truck has to take evasive maneuvers and ends up taking out the guard rail and totalling out the truck by riping out the transmission and drive line and only going at the speed of about 25 mph. The truck behind the third truck see this happen and tries to avoid the truck and ends up in the median with the trailer that it was pulling on the other side in on coming traffic rolled. Needless to say they shut down both sides of the freeway for a couple of hours trying to get it cleaned up. The good thing was that no one was hurt. Several hours later they finally had it cleaned up and on there way and they are all safely up in Idaho today working. Funny thing about this story is you would think that this kind of accident would be on the news. It wasn't because of all of the election coverage yesterday. When jake had called me to tell me about this and ask if it was on the news the only thing that Icould find was one traffic camera with the accident on it.
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