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riversedge

(70,488 posts)
Mon May 1, 2023, 03:18 PM May 2023

⚠️BREAKING: Several injured after pileup from dust storm on I-55 south of Springfield, IL......

I am up north in mid WI --gusty hard, cold wind all day here also. Not a good day for so many-

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⚠️BREAKING: Several injured after pileup from dust storm on I-55 south of Springfield, Illinois

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⚠️BREAKING: Several injured after pileup from dust storm on I-55 south of Springfield, IL...... (Original Post) riversedge May 2023 OP
Wow. Same place I got caught in a massive ice storm in 2016. sinkingfeeling May 2023 #1
Holy crap, that's awful. Hela May 2023 #2
This pic really shows the strong dust......... riversedge May 2023 #3
@SenatorDurbin · My office is closely following news of the accidents on I-55 due to a dust storm riversedge May 2023 #4
Multiple fatalities CNN applegrove May 2023 #5
This is horrific JanLip May 2023 #6
Right, I heard that the farmers are all digging and disking their land and this added to the a kennedy May 2023 #7
so I'm not on twitter, barbtries May 2023 #8

JanLip

(846 posts)
6. This is horrific
Mon May 1, 2023, 04:21 PM
May 2023

Our son lived in Springfield, IL for a time. We traveled that interstate many times. Lots of farm land.

Jan

a kennedy

(29,800 posts)
7. Right, I heard that the farmers are all digging and disking their land and this added to the
Mon May 1, 2023, 04:29 PM
May 2023

problem winds. Wow……just wow.

barbtries

(28,825 posts)
8. so I'm not on twitter,
Mon May 1, 2023, 05:42 PM
May 2023

and just lately I've found that if a twitter video plays in DU it's fine, but if it takes me to twitter I can't see the post. oh well.

ETA I meant this as a reply to the post below with a bunch of twitter links. sorry 'bout that

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