That’s a highway? It looks like it could barely pass for a county road.
Welcome to Saskatchewan.
Note to outsiders:
The former NDP Saskatchewan government (the Socialists) had an actual official policy of “gravelfication.”
That is, to let the lesser-used rural paved highways naturally degrade into gravel by not doing any road maintenance.
Yeah, all the Eastern Canadian Provinces have that too; tho’ here they call it the “oil’s so d@mn expensive we’re not doing any paving this year” policy. It only gets better during a Provincial election year, as the Province hires all the welfarers to do highway work, so they can recharge their pogey.
so true.Example is hi way 368 going North to St Brieux Sask….That was such a bad road, turned to gravel with holes so big you could lose your vehicle. Then Brad WALL happened and the road was PAVED AGAIN with $$$ I believe from Bourgault Industries who donated piles of cash to have a road that the Semis could actually haul their products to market…..
True story…..
Hiway 3 in southern Alberta under discussion for (long overdue) twinning. One of the local frozen vegetable companies (dunno which one) is interested in supplying some cash for the venture if the piece outside their factory is first. Direct from my MLA.
The only hill for 400 miles and these guys found it. :^(
A friend of mine from out there used to call the sides of the Qu’ Apelle valley, hills. You had to go down and up I guess was the criteria.
That would be the Qu’Appelle Valley.
ya, my fingers missed a p and spell check did not pick it up. Of course calling a valley a hill didn’t register did it?
Like the “Red River Valley”, it’s a riverbank……
No hill, just skating rink road surface. The pickup hit the ditch when he attempted to stop to see if the driver was ok.
As bad as the road conditions were, that trailer was a little too big for that pick-up to pull, V8 or no V8. 😉
Maybe that is the new internal combustion range extender model. He`ll have that trailer in the ditch(over the hill) in no time.
Rained Sunday morning and it was a process walking in the yard, then again this morning. Driving hwy 7 in these conditions is beyond worth it, proven today as air ambulance was called out west of you.
All’s well that ends well
Looks like the QE II south of Calgary when a Chinook blows in.
Rural people don’t know how to parallel park.
D’oh!!!!!!
You win.
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Wind gusting to 80 kph today on roads that had freezing rain this morning. Trailer could be full of popcorn twists which weighs 50 pounds for a full trailer. No shoulders, road is maybe 24 feet wide max. Challenging conditions to say the least.
A wee spot of bother.
But everybody is still on their wheels – or most of their wheels – and it doesn’t look like anybody needs any body work. So definitely not as bad as it could have been.
The wind out in Vonda was a treat – dog went for a pee and gave himself a shower.
Aw geeze, Marge … a couple of vehicles have gone off the road to Brainard … one of them driven by this little funny lookin guy. I don’t know … jus kinda funny lookin. And he wasn’t circumcised.
Everyone needs the small stamps when the price goes up.
! …how did THAT particular piece of info come to light?
Yawn. We blow ’em all the way over down here. Interstate from Cheyenne to Douglas was closed today due to light winds (~40 mph), and tomorrow is predicted with (normal) winds of 60 mph +.
Been warm here since Christmas, and despite weather prognostications of cooling in the forecasts, it keeps getting warmer. Hasn’t frozen for the last three days or nights, got up to 7C today. Main roads and highways are bare and wet.
I once did a run from Regina to Lloyd on roads like that. It was such fun.
I think it was last winter I drove for 30 miles north of Regina with the passenger side wheels on the rumble strip to avoid blowing sideways into the passing lane. Ugly.
Yes indeed.
Yeah, the fun – a light semitrailer in a prairie crosswind. I saw a comment on SDA many years ago – “I lived in this Province for two years before I discovered the flags weren’t made of tin!” Some old-timers may remember that article, it started with a picture of a number of the big round bales that’d been blown across a field, some of them for ~two miles.
So, Kate, which one were you driving?
Neither. I stole the photo from the town facebook page. I wasn’t going anywhere in that skating rink.
Ah. 4 between Speedy Creek & Rosetown can get like that, too.
That’s a highway? It looks like it could barely pass for a county road.
Welcome to Saskatchewan.
Note to outsiders:
The former NDP Saskatchewan government (the Socialists) had an actual official policy of “gravelfication.”
That is, to let the lesser-used rural paved highways naturally degrade into gravel by not doing any road maintenance.
Yeah, all the Eastern Canadian Provinces have that too; tho’ here they call it the “oil’s so d@mn expensive we’re not doing any paving this year” policy. It only gets better during a Provincial election year, as the Province hires all the welfarers to do highway work, so they can recharge their pogey.
so true.Example is hi way 368 going North to St Brieux Sask….That was such a bad road, turned to gravel with holes so big you could lose your vehicle. Then Brad WALL happened and the road was PAVED AGAIN with $$$ I believe from Bourgault Industries who donated piles of cash to have a road that the Semis could actually haul their products to market…..
True story…..
Hiway 3 in southern Alberta under discussion for (long overdue) twinning. One of the local frozen vegetable companies (dunno which one) is interested in supplying some cash for the venture if the piece outside their factory is first. Direct from my MLA.
The only hill for 400 miles and these guys found it. :^(
A friend of mine from out there used to call the sides of the Qu’ Apelle valley, hills. You had to go down and up I guess was the criteria.
That would be the Qu’Appelle Valley.
ya, my fingers missed a p and spell check did not pick it up. Of course calling a valley a hill didn’t register did it?
Like the “Red River Valley”, it’s a riverbank……
No hill, just skating rink road surface. The pickup hit the ditch when he attempted to stop to see if the driver was ok.
As bad as the road conditions were, that trailer was a little too big for that pick-up to pull, V8 or no V8. 😉
Maybe that is the new internal combustion range extender model. He`ll have that trailer in the ditch(over the hill) in no time.
Rained Sunday morning and it was a process walking in the yard, then again this morning. Driving hwy 7 in these conditions is beyond worth it, proven today as air ambulance was called out west of you.
All’s well that ends well
Looks like the QE II south of Calgary when a Chinook blows in.
Rural people don’t know how to parallel park.
D’oh!!!!!!
You win.
[deleted. Off topic. = ED]
Wind gusting to 80 kph today on roads that had freezing rain this morning. Trailer could be full of popcorn twists which weighs 50 pounds for a full trailer. No shoulders, road is maybe 24 feet wide max. Challenging conditions to say the least.
A wee spot of bother.
But everybody is still on their wheels – or most of their wheels – and it doesn’t look like anybody needs any body work. So definitely not as bad as it could have been.
The wind out in Vonda was a treat – dog went for a pee and gave himself a shower.
Aw geeze, Marge … a couple of vehicles have gone off the road to Brainard … one of them driven by this little funny lookin guy. I don’t know … jus kinda funny lookin. And he wasn’t circumcised.
Everyone needs the small stamps when the price goes up.
! …how did THAT particular piece of info come to light?
Yawn. We blow ’em all the way over down here. Interstate from Cheyenne to Douglas was closed today due to light winds (~40 mph), and tomorrow is predicted with (normal) winds of 60 mph +.
Been warm here since Christmas, and despite weather prognostications of cooling in the forecasts, it keeps getting warmer. Hasn’t frozen for the last three days or nights, got up to 7C today. Main roads and highways are bare and wet.
I once did a run from Regina to Lloyd on roads like that. It was such fun.
I think it was last winter I drove for 30 miles north of Regina with the passenger side wheels on the rumble strip to avoid blowing sideways into the passing lane. Ugly.
Yes indeed.
Yeah, the fun – a light semitrailer in a prairie crosswind. I saw a comment on SDA many years ago – “I lived in this Province for two years before I discovered the flags weren’t made of tin!” Some old-timers may remember that article, it started with a picture of a number of the big round bales that’d been blown across a field, some of them for ~two miles.
So, Kate, which one were you driving?
Neither. I stole the photo from the town facebook page. I wasn’t going anywhere in that skating rink.
Ah. 4 between Speedy Creek & Rosetown can get like that, too.
The sidewalks were like that yesterday…
Nice balancing act.