http://www.wral.com/ Breaking News: A tanker truck has overturned on Interstate 40 near exit 315. Traffic is stalled in both directions. More to come ...
think they mean mile-marker 315? there is exit 312 and then 319...... ok, just checked, it is mile marker....ughhhh.... thanks for that heads-up, BIGTIME!! as that is the way I go home!
LOL - didn't even catch that (mile marker/exit), I'm sure thats the way home for most of us.....and I have to leave now to head that way for an appt...:?
Hopefully they'll get it cleared by rush hour. I'll probably take the first 70 exit and then back roads to get home from there. Maybe I'll be able to miss the worst of it, assuming they get it cleared enough that the back-up isn't all the way to the beltline.
Just got a call from DH, he is stuck in this. It is backed up for miles...70 or Jones Sausage is the best bet for getting around it...
I was worried when I saw the title "Tanker Truck" and although it could still be ugly, the consequences of a tanker truck going verses a trailer truck could be significant. Doesn't look like much environmental damage.
I remember years ago (early 1980's) when I was working in the Bronx and living in Fort Leet NJ. A gasoline tanker had flipped on the upper level of the George Washington bridge(GWB). It did not explode but it did shut the bridge down pretty much all day into the evening. Ended up having to drive up the West Side Hightway up to Tarrytown (now called Sleepy Hollow) and go across the Tappen Zee Bridge and then drive back down to Fort Lee on US 9
I just went by there going east. East wasn't too bad-just a slowdown after Exit 312. I saw the truck hooked to a tow truck, but nothing actually IN the road. Westbound was backed up all the way past exit 319, which is where I got off. People were parked and out of their cars!
Had one melt a bridge in downtown Detroit just a few years ago, had to tear the interstate section down and rebuild.
I drove back from Raleigh and got off at mile marker 312 and saw NOTHING! What??? is the time of the post right? cuz i came back at 4pm
Yea it did. Normally I had gotten out of work by 3pm, but stuck around to 5pm and got to the Tappen Zee Bridge by 8pm (Normally it would of taken 45 minutes) and as I was going over the Tappen Zee Bridge I had heard on the radio that the GWB (George Washington Bridge) had reopened.
