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catbyte

(34,459 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:27 PM Jan 2019

Close call for semi truck driver in Michigan snow storm on 1/29/19.

M-6 is also known as the Paul B. Henry Highway. It skirts around Grand Rapids so folks can avoid I-196 downtown & US-131 which is a nightmare. Gotta love lake effect snow!

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Close call for semi truck driver in Michigan snow storm on 1/29/19. (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP

That's one good driver..... pangaia Jan 2019 #1

Driving way too fast with visibility that low and slippery roads. He's lucky. Fla Dem Jan 2019 #2

I'm surprised the idiot driver in the car that passed him didn't wind up in the median. catbyte Jan 2019 #3

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

1. That's one good driver.....

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:28 PM

Jan 2019

Fla Dem

(23,766 posts)

2. Driving way too fast with visibility that low and slippery roads. He's lucky.

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Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:30 PM

Jan 2019

catbyte

(34,459 posts)

3. I'm surprised the idiot driver in the car that passed him didn't wind up in the median.

Reply to Fla Dem (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:35 PM

Jan 2019

You can go from crystal clear to zero visibility in a matter of seconds when lake effect kicks in. It all depends where the snow bands set up. Today, here in Lansing, I could barely see across the street ten minutes ago; now the sun is shining. In two minutes, who knows?!?

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