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(Message started by: Mosaicwench on Jan 6^th, 2008, 11:27pm)

Title: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Mosaicwench on Jan 6^th, 2008, 11:27pm

Please check in and let us know you're ok.

Heavy fog caused a 100 car pile up with 2 fatalities and as many as 50 people taken to area hospitals.

Updates here:
http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=1/6/2008&id=33819

Thomas & Gena?
Karla & Ted?
PattiK?

Anyone else from the area driving near Madison today?

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Redd on Jan 6^th, 2008, 11:33pm

Please check in....

Thanks for the heads up Pat. I have the news on but it's all local news.

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Pinkfloyd on Jan 7^th, 2008, 1:21am

"A tractor-trailer truck came through the area and "plowed through quite a few vehicles," said Wisconsin State Patrol Lt. Lauri Steeber."

All I can say is....thank God for Wendy's. We stopped for a burger on the way back from a weekend near Castle Rock Lake. 6 boys get hungry and dense fog is a great excuse to stop and eat and unfray nerves. Had we not stopped, we might have been in the thick of the wreck. That was some SERIOUS fog.

I've about had it up to HERE with the Semi's. My half-hearted apologies to any long haul truck drivers here. Two years ago we were in an ice storm on the northbound side of 90/94 and watched as the semi's picked off and killed numerous people south of Madison. Yes, I know there are terrible drivers in cars too, blah, blah, blah. But when the cars are doing 20 and getting passed by trucks doing 40.... >:(

As to the above quote from the news...we had no doubt of that, as we discussed what was ahead of us. A very sad mess :'(

Bobw
who needs an alternate route up north other than the killing fields of I90/94

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 7^th, 2008, 1:28am

OMG....Stay safe Bob. We need ya. :o

Damn I hate winter. Too many people losing their lives, their roofs, their cars.. :'(

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Karla on Jan 7^th, 2008, 9:07am

Sorry I just logged on and saw this post. We are ok. Thanks for thinking of us.

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by thomas on Jan 7^th, 2008, 9:52am

We're ok, stayed home during the heavy fog.

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by thomas on Jan 7^th, 2008, 9:54am

on 01/07/08 at 01:21:29, Pinkfloyd wrote:

Bobw
who needs an alternate route up north other than the killing fields of I90/94

HWY 31 then 12.

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by pattik on Jan 7^th, 2008, 10:07am

Thanks for checking up on us. When the unseasonable warm temps hit the 32" of snowpack that had built up during December, the result was very serious fog. The visabilities were beneath 1/4 mile and it hit suddenly. So you can imagine what that can do to fast moving weekend traffic that is suddenly driving blind. I moved around safely in town, but stayed off the highways.

Title: Re: Wisconsin CH'ers near Madison?
Post by Mosaicwench on Jan 7^th, 2008, 10:18am

So glad to see my Wisconsin buddies are all safe.

It was just evil out there yesterday. I couldn't see my neighbor's house across the street at times. Glad I was stuck ripping out tile in the bathroom all day.