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Someone who works for me told me about a place in WV that is not far from where we live in Warren OH, that is two hours away.
I think this would make a nice family trip. My wife also likes a lot of glass and pottery from WV. Not sure if this is near by. Our kids will be home from college.
One of our kids is a vegan. We heard that this place has food for him.
There is a glass shop/museum at Oglebay itself and some of what they sell is made in the lower level. The other place you might be thinking of in regards to pottery is the Fiesta factory in Newell, WV which is a lot closer to Warren, OH and on the way to Wheeling. There is some restaurants in Wheeling with vegan food but Oglebay is not known for specializing in it or anything. The traffic for the lights can be bad you are better off timing it so you are there as soon as it gets dark which is pretty early of course this time of year.
Traffic was at a dead stop for hours on Tues the 12th around 4pm est as reports said a 18 wheeler was on its side due to an accident. I70 was then closed. If WV doesn't have the resources to clear the accident in a reasonable time frame, they should seek assistance from OH or PA to get the accident cleared as quickly as possible. No need to shut down a whole highway because a truck driver was on his cell phone or something while driving and tipped his rig.
Sheriff of Wheelin WV said: salt truck is broke down
Well the only thing I don't understand is why they shut down eastbound and westbound both...but from what I understand the roads were very icy and that hill can be a death zone. My friend said that he saw a ton of accidents around that hill right around rush hour.
Other than that you just sound like your complaining about having to sit in traffic during a snowstorm that caused a lot of accidents. Get used to it. It had nothing to do with the city or state. It took me forever to get home from work that day and I left work late on purpose even to make my commute later in the evening that day because I knew it had been a nightmare throughout the day.
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Watch "Highway Thru Hell" sometime, it runs on the Weather Channel and some of the streaming services. It's about a towing/recovery company in western Canada.
Sometimes it just takes a long time to clear a wreck. Maybe the trailer has to be unloaded first. Rocks and trees sometimes have to be cleared first. Or the really big Heavy Recovery tow trucks are on another job. And, sometimes, they have to close the lanes in both directions in order to position the tow trucks so they can pull in the correct direction.
Also, if a storm hits just before or during rush hour, traffic prevents both the salt/plow trucks and tow trucks from quickly getting to where they need to be.
Well the only thing I don't understand is why they shut down eastbound and westbound both...but from what I understand the roads were very icy and that hill can be a death zone. My friend said that he saw a ton of accidents around that hill right around rush hour.
Perhaps the roads were icy because they were not salted enough. Having lived in the snow belt in Ohio for most of my life, I'm very adept when it comes to driving on bad winter roads. I've also been tied up in enough accidents to know what an acceptable time frame is to properly direct traffic. We can't be having multiple accidents and highways being shut down because "the salt truck was broke".
Exactly how many salt trucks does Wheeling/Bethlehem/Triadelphia have that are operational I wonder?
One direction had a jack knifed truck, the other had a 15 car accident. All of which could be avoided with salting of the roads and driving carefully.
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Other than that you just sound like your complaining about having to sit in traffic during a snowstorm that caused a lot of accidents. Get used to it. It had nothing to do with the city or state. It took me forever to get home from work that day and I left work late on purpose even to make my commute later in the evening that day because I knew it had been a nightmare throughout the day.
It absolutely has to deal with that section of I70 and those responsible for maintaining that stretch of highway. I've never encountered something as long as this in Ohio (spent 28 years in NE Ohio), which gets even more snow! If Wheeling is going to shut down a highway, it's best to let people know by posting signs well before the 470/70 exchange in both directions so that people are made aware in advance that they need to take an alternate route instead of being stuck in traffic. Don't be senseless and make them sit in their car for hours on end. I mean, this is basic protocol for handling of a shut down highway. I shouldn't have to bring up my Waze app just to find out why I'm all of sudden stuck in traffic when the accident occurred at 10am and I'm just approaching dead stopped traffic at 4pm. I could have taken route 40 or 88 if given a heads up. No signs, no nothing. What should have been a 4.5 hr trip was instead a 9 hr trip due to accidents occurring on a small stretch of highway in WV.
Dude you still don't get it there was accidents all over I70 in multiple states that day. I80 in PA was also shutdown for a period of time. I watched the storm hit from the window of my office it came out of nowhere and was a whiteout. NE Ohio doesn't have hills just for starters and hills like we have make any winter storm worse. Driving in NE Ohio during a storm is a joke compared to this part of the country.
You must not travel very much what happened Tuesday was something that happens usually at least once or twice during the Winter. I have a million miles logged on interstates in my time I've seen it all. There was people with legitimate problems that day and had a banged up car. You should probably just stay home if it might snow lol. Half the time taking the alternate route which is quite often a 2 lane road isn't much of a better option. Also some of the news sites did post an alert about the highway, however, if you're not from the area it's doubtful you would have known where to look anyway.
I agree if a highway is shutdown there should be better info posted about it but this relies on multiple states working together and honestly this is a problem all over the country. We shouldn't have to rely on stuff like Navbug. Every states DoT should have to give updates and provide reliable, and useful information immediately. If you can get a text to your cell phone about an Amber Alert I don't see why you couldn't get one in regards to a highway being shutdown.
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Wheeling WV...I 70 closed on the 12th
