[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

23 hours and 30 minutes to go from Bragg to Northern Jersey. Just under 600 miles, normally a 10-11 hour drive, including rest stops.

The first four hours to Richmond were normal. It took over seven hours to go from Quantico to Baltimore. They got off for a quick stop at the Andrews AFB exit and got stuck behind a Nissan Altima that lacked the ground clearance to get down the ramp. Took about an hour to shovel/dig/push them out. The Jersey Turnpike was down to one lane plowed, no exits cleared. Dead stopped, if anyone had an accident, lost control, or stopped. They were running behind the storm, after the delay around DC, so most of the snow had fallen, but not yet cleared. DC, Baltimore, Philly, Newark, they got to see the worst of it. The kids say that they have seen enough snow for a while.

Return trip tomorrow, hopefully things will be better coming home.

TR

T.R.
Should not be too bad heading back down. We made the drive from MD to FL yesterday and it went fairly smoothly (16 hours with doggy breaks). Early A.M. had some packed-snow and icey areas (thank you All-Wheel-Drive), but we cleared any significant road mess just south of Richmond. The greatest challenge were the areas where the far right or left lanes were not completely cleared and some people took longer than others to come to that realization.