2009-03-27

Red River cuts from sea to shining sea

So I've been informed by our chain-smoking materials manager guru that critical shipments long overdue are delayed by, of all things, Red River flooding.

As you can see, if you want to go East-West and stay on this side of the U.S. border, there's only one option. Unfortunately, several trucking companies have ordered their drivers to wait the flooding out for safety reasons, not to mention delays at Winnipeg processing centres. Since so much stuff cannot economically or legally be shipped by air, what I'm looking at here is another argument in favour of Alberta Independence.

So anybody else who's waiting on deliveries that tracking data shows to be "in Winnipeg - delayed due to bad weather" should be aware.