Icy beauty
For a high resolution picture click here.
A short impression from our way back from Rochester MN to Saint Louis is shown below. We decided to stay for one extra day in Rochester, due to the very bad weather conditions forcasted for Sunday. But even on Monday the roads were still pretty bad, with lots of blowing and drifting snow, all packed into a thick sheet of ice on the surface of the roads. The area that was hit most hard was the central part of Iowa, around Cedar Rapids and Iowa city, and the roads were very bad here as you can see on the photo’s.
After Iowa city the conditions improved pretty fast, and so we could continue the rest of our trip without any problem.
In the midst of all the forces of nature, there was however also a lot of beauty!
For a bigger picture, click on the photo’s.
leaving Rochester MN, a beautiful sundog (or parhelium) appears…
… and becomes very bright!
Just south of Rochester on highway 63, the conditions are still OK, with a strong wind from the west, lots of snow is drifting over the road…
… but the further south we get, the more snow and the more icy the road gets.
A very icy countryside
The amounts of blowing snow increases as we get further south into Iowa, the road is sometimes barely visible
Conditions get worse and worse… visibility becomes sometimes very bad and whatever they try to clear the roads, it doesn’t really help…
A very icy road, close to Waterloo, Iowa
Blue skies and a beautiful countryside along Interstate 380 in Iowa
A lonely tree
A very ice but beautiful countryside along I-380
Suddenly the conditions get worse again, just south of Cedar Rapids
Messy
More messy
This is supposed to be I-380, a four lane interstate…
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Hey AJP,
Mooie foto’s! Wel eng om zo de weg op te gaan.
Succes met studeren etc,
Groeten,
Maurijn en Arieke
Comment by maurijn — 23 February 2008 @ 6:02 PM
Hey AJP,
Gave foto’s. Leuk om te zien wat jij daar allemaal meemaakt.
wij maken ook heel wat mee, kijk maar op niels zijn site, er staan weer heel wat foto’s bij. Heb je zijn verjaardagsfoto gekregen?
groetjes
Comment by eline — 28 February 2008 @ 4:11 PM