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60 mile drives in the winter up here can turn into
2 hour drives due to road conditions. In the days before cell phones, the local news (I favored channel 8 in GR), every year, would report on someone out in the boonies, got stuck in the snow. The person would see the lights of a house across a field, and start walking toward the light, but freeze to death before they reached the house.
Typical lake effect belt weather. I know this bit of 94 well, just west of Battle Creek. A few years ago, MDOT rigged the cable barriers visible along the road. The idea of the cable barriers is supposedly to catch cars before they slide across the median, into the opposing lanes. But, instead of rigging the barriers in the center of the median, they rig them just off the shoulder of the traffic lanes, on one side or the other of the median. So, if you need to duck a crash ahead of you, if the barrier is on the same side of the median as where you are traveling, you don't have anyplace to go, other than racking up your car on the barrier. Between the roundabouts, "diverging diamond" intersections, those cable barriers, and the "flow control" traffic lights on freeway on-ramps, that prevent you getting a running start so you can merge into traffic, I need to ask what sort of dope the MDOT people in Lansing are on, to be so delusional.
193 Car Pile Up I 94 Michigan Snowstorm Jan 2015 RAW VIDEOYouTube: 193 Car Pile Up I 94 Michigan Snowstorm Jan 2015 RAW VIDEO (Public Safety Multimedia)Steve
