anyone driving I-94 by Gary Indiana , be careful

[Mari333]

my son just called me and told me 25-30 cars are on the side of the road, all 4 tires blown out on some cars, others with 2-3 tires completely blown out, due to a HUGE fissure that crosses both lanes and numerous potholes that are really deep..probably due to the frozen road unfreezing so fast and the drenching rain.
state troopers are just now arriving on the scene.

[IndyOp]

1. Jeez. I am glad your son called you -- that he isn't hurt. (n/t)

[Mari333]

2. oh he is fine , he bragged about his ability to manuever

his car around the whole thing. typical 28 yr old :)

[Warpy]

3. Frost heaves are terrible things

and Massachusetts was always helpfully putting up "bump" signs on the side of the road right next to them so that you were trying to figure out what the sign said and missed the damn bump.

I've nearly ended up with sunroofs in several cars because of that.

I've never lost a tire, though. I-94 must be especially nasty.

[sandyj999]

4. Thank You! One question is it East or West?

My husband is driving his semi through there in the morning on the way to the Twin Cities so we appreciate the warning.

[Mari333]

6. he was headed towards chicago from michigan

so he was in the westbound lanes coming back from michigan. I wonder if they will close off the road. it should slow things up quite a bit.
on edit,,, they will probably send a work crew to fill the holes to keep the traffic flowing, at least i hope so. going down I 94 sucks anyway as I recall..the roads are never in very good shape thru indiana...hugs

[sandyj999]

9. Thank you, you gave him the chance to change his route! n/t

[Condem]

5. I-80 in Iowa is a skating rink between Iowa City and Davenport

Took me an hour and fourty minutes to get home from Cedar Rapids. Normally 35 minutes. I took the back roads or I'd still be out there.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Wow. Sounds so dangerous. So many people traveling this itme of year...

The roads in the Northern part of the US are all so hazardous..

My son lives in Chicago. Now that it has finally stopped snowing and the temperature has gotten into the double digits, planes have been grounded due to the fog.

[pearl]

8. Up here on the north side of Chicago

It has been a brutal week. Been raining all night and most of the day. Lots of flooding.

[Mari333]

10. yes, and such a HUGE change in temps

we had 4 feet of snow melt in One Day!! and rain on top of it. my basement is getting weepy around the edges.nonetheless, I opened a window today because it hit 52 degrees...hells bells, it was -7 last week..I 'pretended' it was spring...:)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. The worst stretch of highway around Chicago bar none.

[mopinko]

12. ah, yes. the midwest

no hurricanes, no tornadoes (right here), no big floods (right here), no earthquakes to speak of, but potholes? boy howdy do we have potholes.