Smoke was awful on the way down, down to about 10 ft visibility in spots... I reported that in to the NWS office. It was awful traveling down at 10 mph... a few accidents due to the lack of visibility, and they closed off a section of I-75 after we were past it according to what we heard on the scanner. Whew... close one. This place is wild... so many kids... ugh!
I took some awesome pics of the smoke along the way... guess I'll post when I get back unless they'll consider unlocking the CPU for me...
More at another time...
Smoke's not bad here... right now...
Toodles,
~Dewdrop
Saturday, May 12, 2007
No USB port, but I've got internet... ;-)
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
ReplyDeleteNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1052 AM EDT SAT MAY 12 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1000 AM WILDFIRE LAKE CITY 30.19N 82.64W
05/12/2007 COLUMBIA FL EMERGENCY MNGR
SEVERAL ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED ON INTERSTATES 10 AND 75
DUE TO SMOKE FROM WILDFIRES. VISIBILITY ON AREA ROADS IS
NEAR ZERO. INTERSTATES 10 AND 75 ARE BEING CLOSED IN
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Glad you made it through...Cloase call. We are down to half mile here in Colquitt county
Definitely a close call... we had just gotten past that section when we heard over the scanner... I got a picture of one of the accident... SUV flipped over. Then, the FHP were forcing a closure, pulling over a group and one of them got hit by a semi... Pretty crazy stuff... Literally, 10 ft visibility... fixin' to post some pics. So glad we made it through. I can't figure out a good detour. It was so bad!
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