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Tuesday 25 Jun 2013

Who’s creeping down the streets of the city?

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13 Responses to “Who’s creeping down the streets of the city?”

1. on 25 Jun 2013 at 8:06 am   Mark D
   
   

   Yeah, I’d have crapped myself so hard I’d have flown the rest of the way home.

2. on 25 Jun 2013 at 8:15 am   Gerry N.
   
   

   A friend stopped driving long haul and got a job delivering bread in town after watching a wreck similar to that.

   Gerry N.

3. on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:16 am   Randy Rager
   
   

   Damn!

4. on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:35 am   paul b
   
   

   Wind is very powerful. Pretty bad when you need to batten down semis. 80k being flung around would wake you up.

5. on 25 Jun 2013 at 12:04 pm   Sigivald
   
   

   On the other hand, I bet the only injury was to the driver’s cool, and maybe some bruising.

6. on 25 Jun 2013 at 12:12 pm   og
   
   

   True. Though I don’t imagine anyone will want to use that seat again.

7. on 25 Jun 2013 at 12:14 pm   Ed Hering
   
   

   That was quite a nasty blow yesterday, wasn’t it?

8. on 25 Jun 2013 at 1:10 pm   Slash
   
   

   That looks like a helluva long trailer.

9. on 25 Jun 2013 at 1:50 pm   keeskennis
   
   

   Slash I think you are right. Long trailer.Big windage and empty combined with the wet road which reduces the sideways grip. Combine this with a new driver that competes with the force from the trailer instead of helping it. All conjecture off course. But in my view this happens to untrained peeps.

10. on 25 Jun 2013 at 1:56 pm   og
    
    

    Exactly, Kees! Hoe gaan dit met jou?

    I think it was a fifty footer (Hard to tell when most of it was down the hill) and it sure was empty. I was about ten or twelve car lengths back and all of a sudden the whole bloody trailer was in the air. The cab held it from all blowing away bit what a sphincter tightener!

11. on 25 Jun 2013 at 8:55 pm   mts1
    
    

    Kees, as quickly as this storm formed, the driver, no matter how experienced, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. I won’t say where this is (and give out the Og’s location), but you can go for miles down this road and there’s no shelter (in the form of under an overpass with a shoulder to sit upon) to be found.

    I was 12 miles east of it. Once it got a bit dark I planned to leave the coffee house, but as soon as I got to the car, I heard The Loud Hollow Sound (ground level was still air), and knew outrunning it was futile. I looked up into the lime green rotating circle, and one of the baristas came out to literally see what was up. I told him it was what he thought it was, but just pre-descending, so hopefully it’ll hit east, but Not Here. Of course it hit the brakes and stopped racing eastward. Once the rain came and sustained, I was at ease, since the thing rained away its strength.

    But today, a co-worker had a nice photo her daughter took of the partially descended funnel cloud from Lowe’s.

12. on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:47 pm   Jeffro
    
    

    Can’t tell what kind of trailer it is other than it appears to be a box trailer. When they are empty – just like a big sail.

    I’ve pulled a cow wagon in a terrible crosswind amongst some bluffs in Montana – and I watched the guy in front of me have one side of his trailer wheels up in the air,then set back down.I looked in my mirror and saw that my trailer had that exact same angle. It was enough to pick up the drivers and I was spinning out at about fifty mph.

    I left little suction marks in the seat that day.

13. on 27 Jun 2013 at 1:06 pm   knox
    
    

    When that front hit the western suburbs I saw it blow a pedestrian over. It was something.

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