[quote=turbohobo]So I drive east on I-64 through Louisville to Lexington then head south on I-75 to Knoxville, boat is pulling good, fuel consumption is averaging 19 MPG, everything is looking good. Just outside Knoxville 1st hint of trouble, we run into a bit of snow but traffic is flowing slow and safe. We get off at an exit to refuel because I am a litle cautious and don't want to get caught low on petrol in a blizzard. Go to get back on I-75 and big rigs are stuck, cannot get up slope of onramp and backing up traffic. We persuade an elderly gentleman driving a big RV that he can get around the rig and up the slope, that clears the way and off we go again to Knoxville. We take the loop-around to I-81 and warning signs inform us that I-40 is closed, bummers, that's the route I had planned, we're on the west side of the Smokey mountains and I-40 takes you through a gap to the east side. Advisory tells us to take I-26, so we drive a little NE to the I-26 exit and the traffic line waiting to use the I-26 exit is backed up for 4-5 miles. By now the snow storm has hit hard and precip is approx 2 inches pr hr, there s no sign of snow plows or salt trucks and snow is getting deeper, so I decide to head further NE up I-81 to I-77, perhaps the plows at other counties are more organized, bad decision. The road gets progressively worse and we're travelling at 30 MPH, cars are scattered all over the road and off the sides of the road, looks like a demolition derby. We keep moving, weaving our way through vehicles stuck in the snow and people staring at my mini-van with a boat on a trailer. We get to the I-77 intersection and there are rigs scattered all over, I follow this rig in front of me and he weaves through this huge snarl of stopped vehicles and we make it through onto I-77. Snow is 2-3 feet deep by now and still no plows, roads are being kept open by flowing traffic alone, I'm spanking along at 35 MPH when we hit a snarl so bad, there's no way through, we're dead in the water. We sit there from 11.30 PM untill 4.00 AM when all of a sudden a flotilla of plows appear along with tow-trucks with tire chains and eventually get us moving again.
The snow was so bad that I had to stop periodically to clear snow off my cat as this would treble the weight I was pulling. Our 15 HR drive turned into a 36 HR marathon, I drove for 2 days with no sleep. We left home 11.00 PM Thursday night and arrived at Myrtle Beach at about 4.00 PM Saturday night, but here's the ringer, temps in MB have dropped into the 50's too cold for sailing.
Anyone want to by a H16 in really good condition?
Turbo
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