Oh that's a messy picture Doug! Regards, Bob S. On 9/24/07, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >
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