High winds in Wyoming

[BSeyler]

This was the scene just south of Cheyenne. When there is an advisory for no light and high profile vehicles, it's for real! At the beginning of the video, there is a northbound rig that is starting to go over. Then, the big show with the southbound rig. Enjoy!

 

[Diesel Gunner]

Yea, Boy Howdy, does the wind blow in Wyoming! My brother and I were returning from an elk hunt there last season and there were the same warnings everywhere. Did not see anything like this but bucked a 60 MPH headwind all the way to Utah.

 

[BarryG]

Same here today in Monument several trucks blown over on I25

 

[NIsaacs]

South Dakota

 

[BSeyler]

This is south of Wheatland on I25.

 

[Diesel Gunner]

Yeeeoow! Yes, Wheatland area was where my brother and I were elk hunting. Gusts like that will chap your hide!

 

[Wiredawg]

We were a little skeered a couple years ago traveling through Wyoming, there were storm and high wind warnings, but seemed we skirted it. Back in the 80s, was driving a rental car through the Santa Anna winds.... very skeery.

 

[Tractorat]

Its a LONG way down to the fast moving water going thru deception pass.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/semitruck-tips-deception-pass-bridge/XLWYMNWNDVGVRIGEPUXIQCPUPQ/

 

[Cummins12V98]

Its a LONG way down to the fast moving water going thru deception pass.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/semitruck-tips-deception-pass-bridge/XLWYMNWNDVGVRIGEPUXIQCPUPQ/

Here is the view from the water. We Boat thru Deception Pass nearly every day in the Summers. If he lived once hitting the water he would not have after getting in the water because of cold water but also the current thru there is deadly.

Can't delete second pic, but it's taken looking towards SnoKing's old digs in LaConner, WA.

 

[Tractorat]

Ive never liked driving across the deception pass bridge in a warm calm day in the summer.

 

[DHayden]

I dislike driving through Wyoming. I have done it several times and the wind blew like heck every time. One time I was driving my Chevy 454 one ton with a measly 16 foot trailer weighing about 7k. The headwind was so bad I could literally watch my fuel gauge go down. I had filled up and was not going to miss a station however the next station I came to was closed for repair. I ran out of fuel on the side of the highway. I had to siphon fuel out of a riding lawnmower I had in the trailer. The truck was chugging again as we approached an exit with fuel, its a good thing it was 2am because I was not going to stop at the stop sign at the bottom of the ramp. I slowly rounded the corner coasting with the engine dead and came to a stop at the pump with about 6 inches to spare for the pump to reach lol.

 

[SSage]

I pushed into wind like that in eastern NM not realizing the danger. It was blowing so hard trucks were at a crawl and still rocking bad. Even parked the dry vans looked tipsy in the wind. I got out at a truck stop and found out it was not easy to walk or stand up either. So I learned.

The roads were fairly empty, no one at the diner. No one getting fuel, I guess most stayed in safer areas. Weird day, I expected full truck stops with that wind but it was a ghost town.

 

[JR]

I have posted this before but is still as relevant

 

[Wiredawg]

I learned in Iceland to always have an adjusted escape plan. I once saw an unloaded dumpster rolling. Rapid weather changes can be scary and life threatening.

 

[AHutson]

Yeah that wind was fun to pull doubles in last Wednesday.... Glad I had some weight and I ended up getting our short haul to Ogallala, NE and back instead of my usual to Kearney and back. At one point I was going along at 50 mph near Dix, NE and a gust kicked up and pushed my back trailer sideways a bit so it was dog tracking the front trailer and the tractor. Didn't try to tilt thankfully. My ears were ringing a bit that evening from the wind howling around the cab and fairings on the semi.
BSeyler: That Bordeaux road area there is always a nasty wind tunnel. It sits in a little draw that is just right to funnel the wind and seems to accelerate it through there. Years ago when I was a crude oil hauler ,I saw the wind socks on either end of that draw look solid then the next day they had disappeared. Looked like a camper demo derby through there for a couple weeks. Glad I had a round trailer.

 

[brucejohnson]

I learned in Iceland to always have an adjusted escape plan. I once saw an unloaded dumpster rolling. Rapid weather changes can be scary and life threatening.

Same on Shemya near "the end of the world" at the end of the Aleutians where a Siberian snow drift would momentarily stop on its way to the mainland (AK). Take one step past the edge of Cobra Dane and you are immediately 20 feet from where you were. Signage stated it was a "No Hat" area...hmmm...no kidding! The big hanger doors would rattle around like sheets of tin. All the vehicles had heavy canvas door hinge straps to prevent the doors from being ripped off when opening them. A windsock at Base Ops was a 2x4 attached with a heavy chain to a pole.

 

[SnoKing]

Here is the view from the water. We Boat thru Deception Pass nearly every day in the Summers. If he lived once hitting the water he would not have after getting in the water because of cold water but also the current thru there is deadly.

Can't delete second pic, but it's taken looking towards SnoKing's old digs in LaConner, WA.
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Yep our home was just to your port side.

We got to see lots of boats going up and down the channel.

Here is Ken Behring's(one time Seahawks owner) yacht Crystal going North on the channel in 2003.

 

[BSeyler]

That Bordeaux road area there is always a nasty wind tunnel.

Yep, it can be pretty brutal through there. During the winter of ‘79-‘80, we had a stretch where I-25 south of Wheatland was closed more than it was open. They could usually get it open around 11:00 in the morning and by 9:00 that night, it was plugged tight. Lots of rotary work for the highway department that year. Lots of snow and wind.

 

[bigceltic]

I have posted this before but is still as relevant

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Love it! Last summer when we went up to Mt Rushmore, my kids asked when we would be in Wyoming (coming up from Co Springs area) and I said "Oh, you will know when we cross the border!" And sure enough, they knew! I always get a laugh at the Wyoming State Tree, aka, the telephone pole!

 

[BSeyler]

Love it! Last summer when we went up to Mt Rushmore, my kids asked when we would be in Wyoming (coming up from Co Springs area) and I said "Oh, you will know when we cross the border!" And sure enough, they knew! I always get a laugh at the Wyoming State Tree, aka, the telephone pole!

When I was a kid, we would go down US287 from Laramie to visit relatives in Fort Collins. Road and weather conditions often changed right at the state line. Then, you had to negotiate Pumpkin Vine hill on the way back - that all changed when they rebuilt the road and it's a really easy, straight shot now.

Wyoming State Tree... - Hey, them's fightin' words!