Thursday, May 29, 2008
They Always Said You Could Fry an Egg on the Pavement
File this under amusing current events:
Yesterday in Maryland Heights (St. Louis suburb, one township over from where I live), there was an accident that took out I-270, which loops around the city and is one of the major North-South arteries for the non-downtown areas of the city. 270's usually a mess anyway. As my boss is fond of pointing out, St. Louis has a North-South traffic problem, there just aren't that many major through-ways, and the ones that exist don't go very far. So when one of them gets shut off...
At 8:30 am, a four car accident caused a semi to empty its load of corn syrup all over the highway, completely shutting down the Southbound half of the freeway. Traffic was at a total standstill for an hour, and remained congested most of the day, finally clearing up in time for the evening rush hour.
And right now I'm just trying to think of something that would be harder to clean up than corn syrup. According to authorities, a lot of it oozed into the median and was soaked up, some of it got shoveled up, and then they brought in sand to clump up the rest. Still, I would think road would also need a thorough hosing-down before it was safe enough for cars.
Yesterday in Maryland Heights (St. Louis suburb, one township over from where I live), there was an accident that took out I-270, which loops around the city and is one of the major North-South arteries for the non-downtown areas of the city. 270's usually a mess anyway. As my boss is fond of pointing out, St. Louis has a North-South traffic problem, there just aren't that many major through-ways, and the ones that exist don't go very far. So when one of them gets shut off...
At 8:30 am, a four car accident caused a semi to empty its load of corn syrup all over the highway, completely shutting down the Southbound half of the freeway. Traffic was at a total standstill for an hour, and remained congested most of the day, finally clearing up in time for the evening rush hour.
And right now I'm just trying to think of something that would be harder to clean up than corn syrup. According to authorities, a lot of it oozed into the median and was soaked up, some of it got shoveled up, and then they brought in sand to clump up the rest. Still, I would think road would also need a thorough hosing-down before it was safe enough for cars.
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