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Sedona Arizona Courier Delivers in Major Snow Stormand delivers ON TIMEApril Our Northern
Arizona
branch of Sameday Courier can handle anything.
The following is one example. In
April of last year, we had a job with a pick-up in
Phoenix
to go to Fruitland New Mexico.
There was a winter storm warning out for the next two days for Flagstaff
and I-40 from Kingman to Winslow. We
could pick up in Phoenix on
Friday, and deliver to Fruitland New Mexico, near the four corners, the next day
by 10:00 am. I packed an
overnight bag and took a blanket and pillow, thinking that I’ll go straight
through, and get near the delivery point, get a few winks, drop off and then
head back. But my family
persuaded me to swing back home to Sedona and get a few hours rest in my own
bed, which sounded good and I did just that, I had an uneasy feeling about the
storm warnings. So I set my alarm
for 1:30am, and left by 2:00 am. When I left
Sedona,
it was lightly raining and not very cold. The
difference in elevation between Sedona and Flagstaff
is over 2600 feet, and each
have different weather. As I drove
through Uptown Sedona, at 2:00 in
the morning, it was a complete vacant ghost town, and I pulled over and poured
my insulated traveling mug full of coffee. As
I ascended highway 89A up Oak Creek Canyon, the rain intensified to the point I
had to have my wipers on high speed. About
half way up the canyon, the rain suddenly turned white, and the snow was coming
down. I thought to myself, if it’s
this heavy at this elevation, I
wonder how it is up on the top on the Mogollon Rim.
Every few hundred feet, the snow was getting thicker, the wind was
swirling it around into white-out conditions.
The snow on the road was getting deeper, and at 2:00 in the morning,
there was not a soul out there but me. At
this point, I had no choice but to keep on going, as this road is an extremely
narrow two-lane with a drop-off of several hundred feet on one side, and a
straight up cliff on the other, with no place to turn around even if I could see
where I was going. As I ascended,
the snow on the road was getting quite deep.
I was getting quite concerned about what’s ahead, but for the time
being, my best friend and trusty Ford F350 Turbo Diesel Dually 4WD, (which I was
using!) with over a half a ton of cargo in the back, I was doing fine.
At this point I
must mention that I lived in Northern Michigan – in the Keweenaw – and drove
through the most extreme winter conditions in my truck, and I love and trust
this truck in any weather. I was nearly to
the top when I met a snowplow coming down. Yes!!
A pathway was cleared, for a little while.
The one lane pathway filled in quickly filled in, but I was up on the
flats and out of the gorge. But the
going was still intense, with top speeds of about 20-25 mph.
Visibility was only about 25 feet in front of the truck. I traveled the
flats to the onramp of I-17, and was struck by a sight that I’ve never seen
there before. I couldn’t see the
interstate highway. It was as deep
in snow as the rest of the landscape. In
the black of night, the street lights at the on-ramp clearly revealed that I was
alone out there in a major snow storm at 3:00 in the morning.
There weren’t any vehicle tracks on the road anywhere, and I wondered
if perhaps the interstates were closed. I had no choice
but to proceed into Flagstaff,
where there should be some life somewhere, and rethink, regroup, and take a
breather. So I drove along I-17 to
I-40 in at least of couple feet of snow, the only one leaving tracks.
The white out was continuing, so I pulled off at Little America five
miles down I-40 to get out my laptop and check the radar. The radar revealed
that I was smack dab in the middle of the worst part of the storm, and it
wasn’t moving, so I couldn’t wait it out – I’d be there for hours and my
delivery would be overdue. I went into the
lobby of Little America to ask the personnel
what the truckers are saying. I-40
did have a few big rigs crawling along it. They
said that everyone is saying that it’s raining in Winslow.
Raining!!! I thought,
“I’m going to go on and bust out of this thing!” I sat in the
Little America parking lot, waiting for an 18 wheeler to pass by.
When one did, I got on the interstate and followed his tail lights and
stayed in his tracks. I followed him
(not close enough to annoy him) for several miles.
It was snowing so hard that it was gathering on my wipers which
wouldn’t wipe the windshield clear. I
had to have my window rolled down, and every time the wiper would come over to
the left side I’d reach out and yank it outwards so it would snap back and the
snow ball would come off. Needless
to say, with the window down, the heater was on full blast. I heard on the
radio and my laptop Road Conditions site that there was a big rig overturned in
Winona, and sure enough there was. Beside
the big rig I was following, and a few others crawling on the opposite side of
the road, this was the only life I saw so far on the interstate – emergency
crews. The big rig
finally pulled over – probably to rest, once things lightened up a little.
So now I was in the only one breaking tracks on I-40.
The snow on the road was finally getting less deep, and by the time I got
to Winslow, it was indeed raining. How
do you spell relief? Rain. I put the pedal
to the metal, felt like I was back in reality, and watched the sun come up over
the Northern Arizona desert. The
skies in my rear view mirror were still as black as night.
That storm was still back there. Even with the
storm I was on schedule, and made it through safe and sound.
From now on, I
will listen to my instincts and my common sense.
If there are storm warnings out, keep on truckin’ and get beyond them.
Take your overnight kit and be safe.
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