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Hot Shots: Tropical snow, shaky landing, late-season tornadoes

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features heavy mountain snow in Hawaii, a descending airplane battling crosswinds and two late-season Southern tornadoes.

Trouble in paradise

Earlier this week, a strong storm dumped an estimated 6 to 10 inches of snow in the summits of the Big Island. This isn’t unusual, as many mountains in the Aloha State remain snowcapped most of the year. What...

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Hot Shots: Satellite transport, snow devil, water spout and more

Photo montage of a waterspout and a flooded road.

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features an 18-wheeler hauling a weather satellite, a snow devil in Colorado, a rare waterspout in Canada and more.

Space trucking?

The latest National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite was recently shipped across the country on an 18-wheeler and a military plane. Lockheed Martin’s spacecraft team in Littleton, Colorado,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hot-shots-satellite-transport-snow-devil-water-spout-and-more

Hot Shots: Blizzard, tornadoes, landslides and more

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features truckers stuck in a Sierra snowstorm, a vehicle tossed by a tornado, a California highway blocked by landslides and more.

Slamming Sierra snow

A powerful storm last weekend dumped 36 to 42 inches of snow in parts of the Sierra Nevada, including Mammoth Lakes and Mount Rose Summit. The storm lasted into Monday, with nearly 30 inches piling...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hot-shots-blizzard-tornadoes-landslides-and-more

Hot Shots: Beer spill, flash floods, memorial on a truck and more

Photo montage of tractor-trailers in rain, snow and with a rainbow in the background.

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so on social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features beer lost in a truck rollover, vehicles stuck in Southern floodwaters, a memorial traveling on a big rig and more.

Party foul

An 18-wheeler rolled over Wednesday in west-central Wisconsin, spilling cases of Leinenkugel Oktoberfest beer onto the side of a highway, according to WEAU-TV in Eau Claire.

According to the Wisconsin State Patrol,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hot-shots-beer-spill-flash-floods-memorial-on-a-truck-and-more

Hot Shots: Fire train, dust storm, fierce flood

Montage of a train, along with a tractor-trailer driving through sand and dust.

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting trucking, transportation and weather. This week features old train cars fitted with water tanks for firefighting, a deadly wreck caused by a sandstorm, a trucker who misjudged floodwaters and more.

Track record

As large wildfires continued to burn out West this week, response teams got help from a unique source — converted freight trains. Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) deployed one of its water trains to the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hot-shots-fire-train-dust-storm-fierce-flood