{"id":6042,"date":"2011-05-27T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2011-05-27T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:14:26","slug":"75-feet-of-snow-blocks-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"75 Feet of Snow Blocks Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SnowI’m catching up with a backlog of driving stuff after my recent trips to Rush gigs, and came across this one from 16th May. The North Cascade Highway in Washington State<\/a> was covered by 75 feet of snow over a 40 mile stretch!<\/p>\n

Obviously, this compares well with what we got over here last winter. The only thing missing is a load of whingeing and whining… the Americans just clear it and get on with life.<\/p>\n

There’s some incredible pictures in that story. But it’s only the worst for 30 years – they DO get worse sometimes.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine if the photo above was from the UK? There’d be cars overturned all along the road, gritters stuck in drifts, and a TV news blame-fest over lack of grit to spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m catching up with a backlog of driving stuff after my recent trips to Rush gigs, and came across this one from 16th May. The North Cascade Highway in Washington State was covered by 75 feet of snow over a 40 mile stretch! Obviously, this compares well with what we got over here last winter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t