Police escort causes road closure on US 321 near Valmead, Lenoir NC
Road ClosureA police convoy with five buses and about ten police vehicles caused a temporary road closure and traffic congestion on US 321 northbound near Valmead. Officers blocked the entire roadway to allow the convoy to pass, possibly related to a football team traveling to a game.
Audio|Source: Caldwell County Severe Weathernet/SkyWarn and Lenoir Amateur Radio Repeaters
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We got some kind of EIP going through Valmead.
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Five huge buses with the police escort.
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Look like 10 cop cars escorting these folks.
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KB4DKW, this is Carol Forhey-A-X, but how are you doing today?
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I'm not very good, going to the store to get some half of the horse, but yeah, heading up 321 northbound as,
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I guess it could be a football team, I don't know, but they had all kinds of police escorts around these big buses, the young, like a Y-O-U-N-G, young buses.
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I got you.
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We looked it up. We're driving around aboard today, headed towards Granite Falls, and the traffic in the northbound lane was insane today.
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And Amanda took a look at it, and there is a football game, I think,
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between App State and Oregon, I believe is what they were saying.
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So I'm sure that's probably their crew riding up the road now. But man,
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that's a heck of an escort going up that way. Over.
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Yeah,
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I don't know where they situated at, but they,
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yeah, to Oregon, well,
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seems like they'd be coming in from Charlotte, but maybe they went to Asheville. I don't know, it just...
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Could be, but they had, you know, the big escorts,
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you know,
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they blocked the road. I was coming up to Holiday Super Ed, north, southbound, and two cars in front of me. All of a sudden the cops just showed up and blocked the whole road and I took pictures of the buses.
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US-321, Lenoir, NC
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