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<title>🚧 Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 28, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 28, 2025

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Jackie Dorothy

Wyoming Life

Around Wyoming

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<title>🚧 Haunted Wyoming: The Ghost Ship Of The North Platte | Cowboy State Daily</title>

One of the more intriguing ghost stories in Wyoming is a ghost ship that appeared infrequently on the North Platte River in in 1862, 1887 and 1903. Each time it was spotted, it brought death with it for the people who saw it.

Haunted Wyoming: The Ghost Ship Of The North Platte

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Jake Nichols

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<title>🚧 Globetrotting Wyoming Wrangler J.B. Zielke Has Cowboyed On Six Continents | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Saratoga cowboy J.B. Zielke has travelled all around the globe, taking ranch jobs and learning how the world does Western. In Mongolia, he rode reindeer. In Sweden, he coaxed cows into a trailer because roping is illegal.

Globetrotting Wyoming Wrangler J.B. Zielke Has Cowboyed On Six Continents

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>🚧 Why There Are Only Two Escalators In All Of Wyoming | Cowboy State Daily</title>

When it comes to escalators, Wyoming’s two — both in Casper — equal the number of the state’s U.S. senators and national parks, and are 255 times fewer than registered electric vehicles.

Why There Are Only Two Escalators In All Of Wyoming

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Jimmy Orr

Economy

&#x201C;Your GPS is wrong. This road is CLOSED!!&#x201D; 
It&#x2019;s not a sign you want to see when you are traveling across Wyoming in the winter. 
But because so many people have ended up on County Road 401 south of Rawlins — which is closed in the winter — Carbon County officials installed the sign on a gate blocking the road. 
Google Maps attempts to reroute people on this road when Interstate 80 between Saratoga/Walcott Jct. and Rawlins is closed. 
This isn&#x2019;t an isolated incident either. <h2>8-Hour-Drive</h2>For much of the summer, Google Maps <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/06/30/google-maps-is-wrongly-telling-people-interstate-80-is-closed-reroutes-people-to-colorado/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">tried to route people</a> through Utah and Colorado because the app wrongly thought a portion of Interstate 80 was closed.  Maybe a link to the story? 
There was roadwork going on and two lanes were shutdown but the other two lanes accommodated both directions of traffic. 
Google&#x2019;s directions added on a hefty eight hours to the trip. 
&#x201C;It is a beautiful scenic route, but not necessarily built for the level of traffic I-80 gets daily,&#x201D; WYDOT spokesperson Jordan Achs told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday.
That re-routing is an inconvenience. A big inconvenience, yes. But nothing compared to the consequences which could happen on a closed road in the winter.
Kandis Fritz, Carbon County Road and Bridge Coordinator, said getting stuck on a closed road could be very dangerous.
&#x201C;Because we get below freezing temperatures,&#x201D; she said. &#x201C;You could run out of fuel, you could run out of food.&#x201D;
Fritz said the highest drift so far on County Road 401 has been 16-feet. In prior years, snow drifts have hit 22 feet.<h2>511 App</h2>That&#x2019;s why WYDOT is hoping people access its information as they drive across the state. 
It&#x2019;s <a href="https://www.wyoroad.info/511/WY511Mobile.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">app &#x201C;511&#x201D;</a> is updated in real time so if there&#x2019;s a road closure, strong winds, significant snow, ice, etc., users will know about it. 
&#x201C;It&#x2019;s a great tool for getting the word out to people especially for those passing through Wyoming who don&#x2019;t know the area,&#x201D; Achs said. 
While in urban states, there will be many different ways to get to a location. In Wyoming, there may only be one. Or two. 
So when WYDOT says the road is closed, it&#x2019;s closed and trying to go around the road is a bad idea. <h2>California Nightmare </h2>Take the guy from California two years ago when <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/03/15/californian-driving-mini-cooper-causes-four-hour-delay-numerous-wrecks-on-i-80/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">he drove around the gate</a> on Interstate 80 during a blizzard in his Mini Cooper. 
He, of course, got stuck on the closed Interstate.  
Two snowplow drivers who were trying to avoid the Mini Cooper got in an accident which halted cleanup activity in the area. 
Subsequently all of the snowplows were then stuck on I-80 until the wreckage could be moved from the road which severely impacted all cleanup efforts for miles. 
&#x201C;Because of this one individual, our entire fleet of plow trucks were landlocked,&#x201D; a trooper told Cowboy State Daily. &#x201C;This cost tens of thousands of dollars to the truckers and really hampered snow removal efforts.&#x201D; 
On top of that, the rescue efforts were a mess. The Californian was wearing shorts and Birkenstocks so they had to find him clothes to wear while his broken vehicle was getting worked-on. <h2>Crowdsourced Road Updates</h2>In addition to WYDOT&#x2019;s app, a good Facebook page to follow is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/WyomingRoadWeatherConditionsReportsUpdates" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wyoming Road and Weather Conditions Reports Updates</a>. 
It&#x2019;s a mouthful. But there&#x2019;s good information there. 
Anyone can post questions and crowdsourcing takes care of the rest. 
Be aware, it can get sharp-tongued. 
When someone on Thursday said he was riding his motorcycle from Cody to Denver on Christmas Day and wondered what the roads would be like, he got what he deserved. 
&#x201C;Paved. The entire way,&#x201D; wrote Bill Mills. 
&#x201C;May not even be a road by then,&#x201D; suggested another commenter. 
&#x201C;Windy, snowing, raining, tornadoes, drifting, freezing, fog, whiteout and one slick spot,&#x201D; Nyle Tuckett wrote. 
Legitimate questions are handled more politely.

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<title>🚧 Google Maps Keeps Routing People To Closed, Abandoned Road In Carbon County | Cowboy State Daily</title>

It's a good idea not to just rely on navigation apps when driving on Wyoming roads in the winter. Google Maps keeps trying to reroute drivers to a closed, impassable road when a section of I-80 gets closed near Rawlins.

Google Maps Keeps Routing People To Closed, Abandoned Road In Carbon County

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