One of the things Wyomingites learn early in life is to make the best of the state’s infamous winter winds so that it doesn’t get the best of them.

That’s particularly the case when people live in wind tunnel zones like the tiny town of Chugwater just off Interstate 25 between Cheyenne and Douglas, which has the dubious distinction of being smack dab in one of the Cowboy State’s windiest spots.

This week, those winds left dozens of blown-over semitrailers littered across Wyoming highways.

“You’ll find the windiest places in Wyoming are on the east side of mountains or higher ridges,” said Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day. “And so that Chugwater-Bordeaux area, when you are driving through there, you will notice there are some bluffs and all of that stuff.”

That eye-catching

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