Saw on the weather reports that there was some bad weather heading my way. Looked like I would only catch a small piece of it because it was going east and I am going west. Even so, I wanted to get ahead of it as much as possible. I got an early start this morning from Oak Grove, MO - that's 30 miles east of Kansas City. Started off it was 47 degrees, not bad! While north on I-29 north of Kansas City I hit rain. Then the temp. started to go down. Here it comes!! The rain stopped for a while. Then when I started west in Nebraska it got really cold. Started to snow and the wind picked up. On I-80 west of Lincoln, NE the wind was blowing straight down from the north at about 40 to 50 MPH with much higher gusts. Worst cross wind I have been in so far. The truck was blowing all over the road. Snow came down a lot harder too, but it was blowing sideways. the temp. had dropped to 12 degrees. Passed a truck that didn't handle the wind too well.
Here is a video of that. In the video you can hear the wind blowing the truck and the gusts hitting the truck. When I pass the truck on it's side you can hear when I took the still photo and also another truck driver making a comment on the CB radio.
After about 100 miles I drove out of the snow. The wind calmed down some too. Still blew pretty hard and made the rest of the drive a challenge. By the time I stopped for the weekend in Big Springs, Nebraska the sun was out. Still windy and cold though. I finally broke down and bought a real winter coat. It was on sale for $34. Make my first delivery in Colorado about an hour from here Monday.
