Final count was 20—but those without chains were delayed

By Gary Meyer, TME
Emergency radios crackled on Sunday, Dec. 2 at 1:48 p.m., with those now-familiar words: “Vehicle rollover, multiple vehicles stuck on Mil Potrero Highway in the ice, just east of Yellowstone.”

California Higway Patrol’s preliminary estimate was “100 vehicles stuck, unable to respond…” By 3:30 p.m. that estimate was revised to about 20 stranded vehicles.

But the situation had a familiar ring to it when it was learned that…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Sunday’s icy roads saw PMC residents installing chains on their front wheels at the Mil Potrero ‘Y’ to get home; others were turned away.

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This is part of the December 7, 2018 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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