William Robb wrote: > I saw one on Saturday, though not as exciting as that. [...]
My favorite was about 25 years ago. I was headed up I-95 northbound from Brunswick, GA, past Charleston, SC, to I-26 and home. That stretch of I-95 runs mostly through coastal lowlands and marshes. So, it's long straight flat stretches intermittently interrupted by low "ridges" for the overpasses. There was a truck a mile or two ahead of me loaded with chicken cages going to the processing plant. If you've never seen one of these, the cages are rectangular solids about two-feet square on the bottom and maybe 9 or 10 inches tall. And they stack them ten or twelve or so layers deep on a flatbed rig to haul them. Well, anyway. This truck is almost exactly one "ridge" ahead of me. For several miles, just as I'm topping one of those overpass "ridges", I see him topping the next one. Then I don't see him until I top the next ridge. So, this goes on for like five ridges, then we reach an area where I-95 goes under the crossing road instead of going over it. And that truck is loaded about two layers of cages deeper than the overpass is tall. Just as I topped the last hill before that bridge, he's out of sight, but I see this HUGE white cloud envelop the bridge. Uh oh! I knew what just happened, so I parked on the side of the highway for a few minutes to let the debris cloud settle. Good thing I did, too. When I got there about ten minutes later, the mess was unimaginable. And the cars who'd whipped past me while I waited for the cloud to settle were now parked just beyond the mess picking feathers and entrails off their cars. I did have to hose the car off a couple of miles down the road, but it was no big deal compared to what /those/ folks had to deal with. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
