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ther from the shoulder on the return trip when he clears the lane that abuts the drop off.
The snow blows in sheets, coming straight at the cab. Mr. Jenkins remembers past storms which created more dangerous driving conditions. ‘‘When it’s snowing real hard and the wind’s blowing, sometimes you have to stop for a while until things die down. One night, it took me four hours just to get from Boston back to Sperryville.” Under normal conditions, that’s a 15-minute trip.
Those killer storms of wind and snow keep crews behind the wheel around the clock, busting the drifts. “’Bout 24 hours is the longest I’ve worked at a stretch,” Mr. Jenkins 8ay8.“Normally, they try to break the work down to 12-hour shifts, but sometimes, that’s just not enough time to do the job. ”
How many times has he plowed the road up the mountain?
“I wouldn’t even like to say.”
Hundreds of times?
Mr. Jenkins chuckles. “Probably thousands!”
A van pulls into the passing lane and whizzbs by, throwing a surge of snow back at the truck and prompting a grumble from the highway department veteran. Mr. Jenkins
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