Uneventful drive (which I love!). Had to stop once as a boat fender, which was under a rachet strap holding the mast to the deck flopped loose, so had to stop and secure it. No problem.
Two tractor trailer operators had a less successful day. Each west of OKC. First one apparently went off the interstate into the median and before he could get it stopped, it jacknifed. Think he was ok, standing in front of it, calling it in. (We didn't see either one happen). Second was about 50 miles further. A semi was parked mostly in the outside lane. A wrecker was there--his CAB had burned up completely. I'm guessing he got out in time, but the whole cab was gone!
I don't think Amarillo has any snow removal trucks. Pulled into a side street, then to our motel. It was 5 inches deep in water from all the melting snow. At first, I parked at the end of the lot, but two side tires were in 4" deep water. I saw on the news that it would get to 14 tonight, so didn't want to risk being ice bound in the AM, so we moved it to higher ground.
Then we tried to see where we could walk to for dinner. A nice restaurant was 2 blks away. Icy and no safe place to walk, so we did the 90 year old shuffle to the Denny's next door to our motel. It is miserable trying to get around here. Driving out tomorrow promises to be fun, NOT.
Pics from leaving this morning:
Saw this leaning tower near here!
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