Since we have lived in OHIO for almost 8 yrs now, we have been on the road alot going back and forth to VA. One of the memorable trips was our first one after Christmas in '99 when we were in SLOOWW moving and detoured traffic on I-70 because of a tremendous snow storm. We had another incident in 2000. This past Thursday was the third...trificta...so to speak. We had just gone through the tolls just outside of Charleston when the traffic started to slow and then came to a stop. It was 82 degrees, and a tractor trailer overturned and dumped his steel load. We sat or walked the turnpike for 2 hours. I am so thankful that we had just stopped for our normal "pit" stop in Marmet, and got something to drink!! There were lots of people walking on the turnpike. We did not go to the wreck site, even though we were probably only 10-20 cars behind it. Being so close to the front we were there when the rescue vehicles and wrecker trucks drove on the shoulder and parked until they could clear the traffic. They had to bring other rescues vehicles up the down ramp in order to get to the wreck.
Needless to say, we were happy to get rolling again!!!
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