{"id":239067,"date":"2021-11-13T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T21:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=239067"},"modified":"2021-11-14T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T17:44:03","slug":"high-wind-affecting-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=239067","title":{"rendered":"High Wind Affecting Travel Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"page34R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Bismaeck\u00a0 (NDHP) The ND Highway Patrol is urging all motorists to travel with care. High <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">winds are occurring Saturday\u00a0 across western and central North Dakota. <\/span> <\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid7\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/> <\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid8\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">During these conditions, high-profile, long-load type, and permitted over dimensional vehicles\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">have restricted travel. North Dakota law restricts movement for these vehicles when wind or other\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">conditions may cause the vehicle or attachment to swerve, whip, sway, or fail to follow in the path\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of the towing vehicle. <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid9\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/> <\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid10\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Federal regulations direct the operators of commercial motor vehicles (CMV) to reduce speeds\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">when hazardous conditions such as snow, ice, sleet, fog, mist, rain, dust or smoke adversely affect\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">visibility or traction. These same regulations direct CMV drivers to cease operations altogether if <\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">conditions become sufficiently dangerous. <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid11\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/> <\/span><span id=\"page34R_mcid12\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Motorists can access road and weather information by visiting NDRoads at <\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">https:\/\/travel.dot.nd.gov\/. The map has a feature that displays windspeeds reported by the\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">National Weather Service.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page34R_mcid12\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for parts of the state throughout Saturday as the storm swept in from the west.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police in Fargo reported responding to 11 crashes on Saturday as roads became treacherous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismaeck\u00a0 (NDHP) The ND Highway Patrol is urging all motorists to travel with care. High winds are occurring Saturday\u00a0 across western and central North Dakota. During these conditions, high-profile, long-load type, and permitted over dimensional vehicles\u00a0 have restricted travel. North Dakota law restricts movement for these vehicles when wind or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weathernews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239110,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239067\/revisions\/239110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}