COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KETV) — High wind gusts recorded in Nebraska and Southwest Iowa caused an increased risk for semi-truck drivers overturning.
Iowa State Patrol reported two flipped semi-trucks along I-35 in Iowa, one near Ellsworth, and a second between Ankeny and Elkhart. Truck drivers crossing through Omaha and Southwest Iowa say the winds they encountered were reason to slow down or even stop.
“The wind, it’s going to pull that truck right over,” Robert Meyer, a semi-truck driver, said. “Might as well park it because it’s going to roll over.”…