12-02-2022 Colorado Springs, CO - High Winds Topple Semi Cars Crash into it

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Yikes.

[hlthe2b]

1. Yeah, high wind alerts with high profile vehicle warnings are mostly taken seriously

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out here. I know I do (though I no longer drive a high-profile SUV or another such vehicle) But, it is not rare to see toppled SUVs, cars, and semis littering I-25--especially north to Wyoming. People take wind gusts lightly at their own risk.

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2. I can imagine the winds can really crank up in the mountains. Here in Michigan, the

scariest wind I was ever in was crossing the Mackinac Bridge. It aged me 10 years. It was like this video:

[2naSalit]

3. That's exactly why I suffered...

From near panic attack every time I crossed that bridge in a semi. I don't think I could handle it in a car.

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4. It definitely freaks me out in the wind. A woman went over the edge near the middle

of the bridge in 1989 and I've been spooked ever since. She plunged almost 100 feet into the Straits of Mackinac. Granted, she was in a Yugo and driving too fast for the windy conditions, but still.



I try to stay in the inside lane unless it's closed for bridge repairs which seems to be a lot.

[2naSalit]

5. I think the last time...

I crossed it was a couple years before that but I had visions of that very thing happening every time I crossed, the whole way across. Every time I did cross, the speed limit was 25mph, makes five miles take forever. Agonizing if you have a phobia about bridges like I do.