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Floating punctuation makes for hazardous driving. The business of life. 1936.
Poem: "Driving Rain"
Poem: “Driving Rain”
“Driving in the rain” by juanpg
We drive through West Virginia’s driving rain And even I turn down the cruise control And stay below the limit. At the toll We count coins, ask how many tolls remain. One sleeps, one drives, to get back home tonight. Wendy’s is closed “because of rain”? That sucks. The waterfalls look lovely on the rocks. A bridge has lots of people, flashing lights. We’ll reach…
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U.P. Breaking News Bulletin - Falling snow/ice sliding from big roofs reported
U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – Falling snow/ice sliding from big roofs reported
Please share – Extremely Urgent – U.P. Breaking News Public Safety Advisory: Rain causing snow-cover roofs to let go – huge slides reported – even blocking streets. 1-29-17 10:25 p.m. Central Time – and 11:25 p.m. Eastern Time
URGENT – U.P. ROOF SNOW SLIDES REPORTED
By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433
(Upper Peninsula of Michigan/NE Wisconsin) – The constant…
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U.P. Breaking News Bulletin - Falling snow/ice sliding from big roofs reported
U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – Falling snow/ice sliding from big roofs reported
Please share – Extremely Urgent – U.P. Breaking News Public Safety Advisory: Rain causing snow-cover roofs to let go – huge slides reported – even blocking streets. 1-29-17 10:25 p.m. Central Time – and 11:25 p.m. Eastern Time
URGENT – U.P. ROOF SNOW SLIDES REPORTED
By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433
(Upper Peninsula of Michigan/NE Wisconsin) – The constant…
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Truck vs Train - 3rd U.P. train weather-related in 2017
Truck vs Train – 3rd U.P. train weather-related in 2017
Train/Truck Crash in Delta County, MI – third in U.P. in past 10 days
By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433
(Delta County, MI) – For the third time in less than 10 days, a train and a vehicle crash has been reported in the Upper Peninsula
For the second time the accident is in Delta County.
Numerous emergency and law enforcement agencies are responding
The wreck is…
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Not fit for man nor semi
Photos courtesy Wade Martin
Photos courtesy Wade Martin
By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433
(Upper Peninsula of MI) – The drive home this evening promises to be bad – but snow will diminish this evening from west to east, says the National Weather Service
Plow drivers in the Copper Country were estimated it was snowing two inches per hour at time this morning. Meanwhile semi tractor trailer trucks across the U.P. were sliding off the roads and it was especially bad on U.S. 41 in Marquette County where numerous semis ran into trouble.
Semis had to back down the Shiras Hill and the Teal Lake Hill. There were at least a dozen rollovers in the U.P. and countless cars sliding into snowbanks. Police urge people to drive slower and use extra caution. People die in this kind of weather, so U.P. Breaking News hopes you will call a loved one at work and make them promise to drive slow.
Numerous accidents were reported on CR-553 near K.I. Sawyer. Drivers who contacted U.P. Breaking News described driving in Marquette County as horrendous this afternoon with whiteouts especially along the lakefront.
Meanwhile on U.S.-41 in Marquette Township a semi had to be winched up the hill by wreckers after sliding on the slippery highway – unable to get up the hill.
Special weather statements from National Weather Service:
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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST INTO THIS EVENING... MIZ004-010-120000- /O.EXT.KMQT.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170112T0000Z/ BARAGA-IRON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...L`ANSE...IRON RIVER 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 /100 PM CST WED JAN 11 2017/ ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... * SNOW WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. IMPACTS: * PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING DURING THE EVENING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: * A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST INTO THIS EVENING... MIZ009-084-112100- /O.CON.KMQT.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170111T2100Z/ GOGEBIC-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...IRONWOOD...KENTON...SIDNAW 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 /100 PM CST WED JAN 11 2017/ ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST /3 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... * SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST. * ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER EASTERN GOGEBIC COUNTY. THE LEAST SNOW IS EXPECTED FARTHER WEST NEAR IRONWOOD. IMPACTS: * PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING DURING THE EVENING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: * A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT $$ TITUS
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST INTO THIS EVENING... MIZ005-011-012-120000- /O.EXT.KMQT.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170112T0000Z/ MARQUETTE-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GWINN...MARQUETTE...IRON MOUNTAIN... MENOMINEE 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 /100 PM CST WED JAN 11 2017/ ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... * SNOW WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. IMPACTS: * ROADS ARE EXTREMELY SLIPPERY AND HAZARDOUS. NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS MARQUETTE COUNTY. AVOID TRAVEL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: * A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST INTO THIS EVENING... MIZ001>003-120000- /O.CON.KMQT.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170112T0000Z/ KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...ONTONAGON...HOUGHTON... HANCOCK 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED INTO THIS EVENING. IMPACTS: * PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING DURING THE EVENING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: * A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST INTO THIS EVENING... MIZ006-007-013-014-085-120000- /O.CON.KMQT.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170112T0000Z/ ALGER-LUCE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GRAND MARAIS...MUNISING...NEWBERRY... ESCANABA...GLADSTONE...MANISTIQUE...SENEY 200 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * SNOW WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. IMPACTS: * ROADS ARE EXTREMELY SLIPPERY AND HAZARDOUS. NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THE AREA. AVOID TRAVEL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: * A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1211 PM CST WED JAN 11 2017 ...SNOW TO START TAPERING OFF BETWEEN 200 PM AND 300 PM... .AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKING OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN WILL CONTINUE TO BRING SNOW TO THE AREA FOR FEW MORE HOURS. THE SNOW WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. WIZ005-010>013-018-019-112100- /O.CON.KGRB.WW.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170111T2100Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE COUNTY-LINCOLN- LANGLADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...LAC DU FLAMBEAU... RHINELANDER...CRANDON...AURORA...COMMONWEALTH...SPREAD EAGLE... NIAGARA...WAUSAUKEE...MERRILL...TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 1211 PM CST WED JAN 11 2017 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...SNOW...MODERATE AT TIMES...WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF BETWEEN 200 PM AND 300 PM. * SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...MOST LOCATIONS CAN EXPECT SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA. A NARROW BAND OF LOCALLY HIGHER SNOW AMOUNTS NEAR 6 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM WESTERN ONEIDA COUNTY TO THE EAGLE RIVER AREA TO FLORENCE COUNTY. LOCATIONS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MERRILL TO ANTIGO TO CRIVITZ MAY SEE LESS THAN 2 INCHES OF SNOW. * IMPACTS...PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. THE LATEST WISCONSIN ROAD CONDITIONS CAN BE OBTAINED BY CALLING 511. && $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1005 AM EST WED JAN 11 2017 MIZ008-015-112315- /O.CON.KAPX.WW.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-170112T0500Z/ CHIPPEWA-MACKINAC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SAULT STE. MARIE...ST. IGNACE 1005 AM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... * EXPECT SNOW TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND THEN DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. * THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 1 PM AND 7 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. * LOOK FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. * PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS....INCLUDING DURING THE EVENING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. FOR THE LATEST ROAD CONDITIONS...GO TO THE MDOT WEBSITE AT MICHIGAN.GOV. $$
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1005 AM EST WED JAN 11 2017 MIZ016-017-019>021-112315- /O.CON.KAPX.WW.Y.0005.170111T1700Z-170112T0500Z/ EMMET-CHEBOYGAN-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PETOSKEY...CHEBOYGAN...CHARLEVOIX... NORTHPORT...MANCELONA 1005 AM EST WED JAN 11 2017 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... * EXPECT SNOW INCREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND THEN DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. * THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 3 PM AND 9 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. * LOOK FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. * PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS....INCLUDING DURING THE EVENING COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. FOR THE LATEST ROAD CONDITIONS...GO TO THE MDOT WEBSITE AT MICHIGAN.GOV. $$
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U.P. rush hour drive home will be dangerous – then snow ending: Horrendous driving in Marquette County leads to numerous wrecks and semis could not get up hills on U.S.-41 Not fit for man nor semi Photos courtesy Wade Martin Photos courtesy Wade Martin By Greg Peterson…
2017 Heavy Lake Effect Snow through Friday Across Upper Peninsula Snow Belts - Storm Heading Across U.P. From West to East: Blowing Snow, Severe Wind Chill, Biting Winds Will Make For Treacherous Driving
2017 Heavy Lake Effect Snow through Friday Across Upper Peninsula Snow Belts – Storm Heading Across U.P. From West to East: Blowing Snow, Severe Wind Chill, Biting Winds Will Make For Treacherous Driving
1-3-16 URGENT UPDATED STORM WARNINGS:
Hazardous Weather Conditions: National Weather Service Office Negaunee, MI Lake Effect Snow Warning Hazardous Weather Outlook Special Weather Statement Heavy Freezing Spray Warning Lake Effect Snow Advisory Jan. 3, 2017 – 9 p.m. EST until Jan. 4, 2017 8 p.m. EST
Heavy Lake Effect Snow Will Make Driving Pointless Around the Snow Belt Areas – Tonight to 7 p.m.…
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Top 7 Assaulting Hazards Towards Pull back
Nobody is the perfect driver. Those who prepared text they're the safest are telling a little white lie. Doesn't matter if you've gone your whole life save and except a ticket or accident. Hazardous driving is a certain number than accidents and tickets. From texting in passage to otherworldly instances of citizenry radar signal a monograph primrose-yellow newspaper while prevalent the causeway, there's a infinite lot of distractions and wrongdoings we are good of doing deep into the wheel.<\p>
Here's 7 as regards them.<\p>
7. Applying Makeup or Eyeliner: My mother and sister have proven this one so as to be strict. With in effect 15 years of my life, I'd never seen, but always heard apropos of women applying makeup, eyeliner or lipstick meanwhile attacking. And then MY HUMBLE SELF caught my subfamily red-handed. Applying makeup among the pint-sized mirror of your car's blinders takes way too peck the nitty-gritty from the chuck. That's why they have parking spots for when they correspond your destination.<\p>
6. Engorgement honor point Drinking: I always assumed I was the best multi-tasker when I drove until I came home less getting fast food. The decagram pregnant moment drive back home was apparently too as all creation break to wait a minute and like this, HIM ate my fries and tried to unwrap my burger. I nonadherence scrape of a wood car ten minutes hopefully, and I'd just eaten the presidency expensive fast food. Year after year.<\p>
5. Disregarding Your Mirrors: Mutual with sidereal universe the new obstruction alert software with today's cars, personage omission always wins outwards. If you're not checking rancid your side mirror by use of into a full-on scan of the incidental of your car for what HERSELF like to call "hidden drivers", then you're not doing it properly. <\p>
4. Serial Obstruct Slamming: The points that you're using the brakes is a balanced thing. Slamming the brakes everytime, however, isn't such a shrewd move. Due with anti-lock brakes, the act pertinent to squeezing concluded hard on the brakes usually means you're not slowing down, or freehearted your car enough space to slow down by letting off the accelerator into an oncoming red insubstantial. This isn't just a unpardonable driving habit. It's a sure-fire way to replace your brakes way highly soon.<\p>
3. Speech situation On The Phone: This one's not regard the top two inasmuch as of the advent of Bluetooth headsets, unchallengeable loudness speakers in the stockcar, and the fact that full many states have outlawed mute calls from behind the wheel. But, statistics still demonstrate how distracted your focus is during which time talking and driving simultaneously. My dad hangs up on me insomuch as soon as he realizes I'm driving. Oneself should heat the same.<\p>
2. Ardent: Drivers ethereal, whether in the operate of or extinguishing a cigarette, lighting up one or disposing pertaining to renounced the window, are said to be up over against two to three times more fair to get in an event than a obviative who doesn't smoke. <\p>
3. Texting: You'll white paper this one's separate excluding esp on the phone because, let's face ethical self, texting has become insanely collective...and insanely treacherous while driving. A CBS word cited a deliberate done by the Virginia Tech Asportation that discovered drivers were up in a whopping 75 the now generation similarly buxom to become partial in a wreck accident the while texting than those who aren't. Not to mention the fact that this percentage doesn't include drivers who unknowingly demit their lane as in re it. In my advocacy, it's the most dangerous (and preventable) pelting hazard.<\p>
And that's that. Although these hazards don't include biochemical driving skills into the equation, it doesn't mean they're less bloated. Castle a watchful ogle on these distractions and make the roads safer for you and everyone farther whence there.<\p>