Home Safe and Sound

So this weekend we went to Laramie, WY to watch the Utes play. The ride there was a nightmare and so was the ride home. It was a whiteout for a lot of the way there, not to mention horrible fog once we made it out of the snow. The ride home was a little more interesting. We started our journey making "good time" as JC calls it! We could see these awesome clouds all around us and knew that up ahead could not be good. It was snowing pretty hard once we made it to Rawlins, WY and the only way we could see was by following the tracks made by the truck in front of us. So we had driven quite a ways and then we came to an incline on I80. We could see all of the trucks stopped on the hill in the middle of the road. On the other side of the road we could see that traffic was backed up and in front of them were trucks blocking the road. Their wheels weren't turning, but apparently the road was a huge sheet of ice because the trucks were sliding down the hill. So as we get closer on our side we could see that the same thing was happening, but in our case the trucks were sliding backwards. I said to JC, "Don't stop! Keep the wheels turning!" We weaved in and out of the trucks and we were the last car to make it out and not get bogged down. It was pretty weird being the only car on I80 all the way to Evanston. So after all of this JC and I decided that the Wyomingites my be the toughest people in the country! I say this because I talk to a lot of people for work that are from New York, New Jersey really anywhere on the east coast. They are seriously the biggest wusses when it comes to weather. They would get eaten alive in Wyoming! Something like the weather that we just experienced would have been all over the news if it were back east. This was just an everyday winter occurrence in Wyoming! Needless to say, I don't think that we will be making the trip to Wyoming again unless it's a guaranteed sunny drive! Kudos to those that live there!!