Well, not yesterday. But I'm pretty darned thankful about that! I was extremely concerned that they might have a wreck if they tried to drive up yesterday morning as originally planned. New Orleans wasn't quite freezing yet, but WE were! And it was raining here, too. Well, not rain - sleet! In fact, it was SO freezing up here that the city was closing down all kinds of things - including all the bridges including the I-10 Mississippi River bridge! So all those trucks that were trying to head West ended up pulled over onto the side of the highway waiting to make it across the river -- ALL DAY! And a number of other roads were closed, too -- any that had bridges or that ran across swamps -- because they were getting extremely icy. It's not like up north where they can send out salt trucks. Down here they have no way of dealing with icy roads except by closing them! Well, they do dump sand on some of them, but that's not nearly as effective as salt.
Lisa from Bulldog Rescue had started out with Bettie, but she ran into a road that was closed and she couldn't make it up here. Poor thing wasted a couple hours picking up Bettie and starting up here, only to have to go back again and return her to her foster mom for now. Sigh.
Here's a map from the Department of Transportation showing road closures -- so many you can't even see where they actually are!
Here's a map from the Department of Transportation showing road closures -- so many you can't even see where they actually are!
And below, from the Baton Rouge WAFB TV website, is a listing of specific road closures just here in the Baton Rouge area:
ROAD CLOSURES
Ascension Parish
Port Vincent Bridge (both directions)
French Settlement Bridge (both directions)
Sunshine Bridge (both directions)
I-10 West between US 61 (Airline Hwy) and LA 73 (Jefferson Hwy)
Bluff Road at I-10 Overpass
I-10 West at Essen
I-10 (both directions) on Horace Wilkinson Bridge (New Bridge)
I-10 East between Horace Wilkinson Bridge (New Bridge) and Essen
I-10 West between Highland and Horace Wilkinson Bridge (New Bridge)
I-12 West between O'Neal and I-10/I-12 Merge
I-12 East between I-10/I-12 Split and O'Neal
I-10 and I-12 shut down at several points due to multiple crashes
I-110 between I-10 and US 61 (Scenic Hwy)
Florida Blvd at Amite River
Essen Lane Overpass at Jefferson Hwy
I-10 on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge (both directions)
I-12 between Range Ave. and EBR Parish Line (both directions)
Port Vincent Bridge (both directions)
French Settlement Bridge (both directions)
Florida Blvd at Amite River
Clio Bridge (both directions)
LA 10 from LA 10 Business in Pointe Coupee Parish to US 61 in West Feliciana Parish (Closure includes John James Audubon Bridge)
Sunshine Bridge (both directions)
Veterans Memorial Bridge in Gramercy (both directions)
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge South
I-55 between I-10 (Laplace) and US 51B (Ponchatoula) - closed both directions
I-10 East is closed to traffic at US 51 in LaPlace due to icy conditions. Traffic is being diverted to US 51. Alternate route: US 61, Airline Highway.
LA 1 entrance and exit ramps from I-10 East and West
US 190 West at LA 415 (Lobdell)
I-10 East at LA 415
Intracoastal Overpass to LA 1
LA 10 from US 61 in West Feliciana Parish to LA 10 Business in Pointe Coupee Parish (Closure includes John James Audubon Bridge)
LA 10 East and West at Audubon Bridge
So, as for me, I'm actually glad I had already planned to take the day off, even without getting Bettie! At least I didn't have to drive anywhere, thank goodness!
Glad the blankets I put on Duke and Arthur are waterproof because those two dummies stood out in the sleet all day instead of staying in their stalls. Glad I had those on them!
As for the dogs, when they needed to go out and felt the sleet it took them only seconds to get ready to come back in! VERY bright boys!
It's supposed to improve later today, but Tuesday night when Mark has to drive back to work there's a 20% chance this will happen AGAIN! . . . not good. Hope he gets back down there to the coast okay.
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