Oklahoma turnpike coated in eggs after icy crash

A wintry mess swept throughout the nation’s heartland Tuesday, producing snow, ice and harmful journey situations that led to dozens of crashes, together with in Oklahoma, the place some costly cargo was photographed spilled throughout a freeway.

The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol mentioned a semi-truck carrying eggs was concerned in a multi-vehicle crash alongside the Will Rogers Turnpike close to the Oklahoma-Missouri border.

In response to troopers, solely minor accidents have been reported, however given the record-high price of eggs, the lack of cargo was a notable results of the accident.

Authorities didn’t say the place the eggs have been headed. 

A current client value index listed the typical value of a dozen Grade A eggs at round $4.95, which has greater than doubled over the past yr and a half.

Power related to a creating nor’easter was chargeable for the wintry climate skilled Tuesday throughout the Plains.

The Oklahoma Metropolis metro space was bracing for lower than a tenth of an inch of ice.

Areas to the northeast of the metro ready for extra vital impacts, with forecasts predicting greater than half a foot of ice and snow. 

Gusty winds and arctic air additional difficult situations, creating near-blizzard situations in some areas.

“Keep off the roads should you can, we’re seeing crashes in OKC from slick roads,” police in Oklahoma Metropolis posted on social media. “If it’s a must to get out please drive slowly & preserve your distance from different autos.”

“Because of the variety of incidents, our officers are NOT responding to non-injury crashes. Keep protected OKC.”

Wind chills have been anticipated to dip nicely under zero all through the workweek, making out of doors situations dangerously chilly.

Greater than 20 million residents from central Kansas to the Tennessee Valley and the mid-Atlantic have been beneath Winter Storm Warnings on Tuesday as an organizing system threatened to deliver heavy snowfall and ice accumulation.

In North Carolina and southern Virginia, vital snowfall and icy situations have been anticipated by midweek.

Some areas like Norfolk and Virginia are bracing for greater than 8 inches of snow and ice. 

The storm system is anticipated to strengthen over the Gulf Stream however keep largely south and east of the Interstate 95 hall, sparing main metropolitan areas within the Northeast from vital impacts.