Friday Morning News – January 12

Jan 12, 2018 @ 09:23

Weather

Today	Mainly sunny. Wind north 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High minus 19. Wind chill minus 37 this morning and minus 28 this afternoon.
Tonight	A few clouds. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 29. Wind chill minus 37.

 

Roads

	2018-01-12 – morning report
101	Timmins to Highway 144	partly snow covered with partly snow packed sections.	2018-01-12 9:24
101	Highway 144 to Shawmere River	partly snow covered with partly snow packed, partly ice covered sections.	2018-01-12 9:24
101	Shawmere River to Highway 651	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2018-01-12 5:20
101	Highway 651 to Wawa	snow covered	2018-01-12 5:36
129	Thessalon to Aubrey Falls	bare and dry road with bare and wet road sections.	2018-01-12 9:26
129	Aubrey Falls to Chapleau	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2018-01-12 5:20
17	Sault Saint Marie North Limits to Montreal River Bridge	bare and wet road with snow covered, partly snow packed, snow packed sections.	2018-01-12 5:33
17	Montreal River Bridge to Wawa	snow covered	2018-01-12 5:36
17	Wawa to Paint Lake Rd	snow covered	2018-01-12 5:36
17	Paint Lake Rd to Southwest of White River	snow packed	2018-01-12 5:37
519	Highway 17 – Dambrossio Township to Green Lake Road – Dunphy Township	snow covered	2018-01-12 5:36
547	Highway 101 to Hawk Junction	snow covered	2018-01-12 5:36
631	White River to Highway 11	snow packed	2018-01-12 5:37
651	Highway 101 to Missinabi	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2018-01-12 5:20

 

News Tidbits – The defective Takata airbag problems continue. Ford has now told owners of certain Ranger pickups to stop driving immediately because they have been linked to two fatalities with the defective airbage inflators.

Ford told people to stop driving some of its Ranger pickup trucks immediately.The trucks have been linked to two deaths due to defective Takata airbag inflators. There are 2,900 trucks in the recall, with only 190 in Canada. The vehicles concerned are all 2006 models built at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Minnesota from Aug. 10, 2005 to Dec. 15, 2005.