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O, Woe is me!!
Tuesday morning on the ride to work I was heading down my usual road, and came across a disabled garbage truck on the opposite shoulder. I slow a bit, as he's not completely off the road and traffic passing by him has to encroach into my lane. I'm alongside him, and the road is BLACK and SHINY! Holy **** the entire lane is SOAKED!!!! First I'm thinking, "Great, whatever liquids have been thrown away by thousand of people is in the street," but then I smell it. It's not garbage, it's OIL!!! I don't know enough about oils to know if it's crankcase oil, diesel fuel, or hydraulic fluid. I suspect the latter, just because of how big the spill was. Anyways, I'm already at reduced speed to accomodate traffic crossing the center line, and now I'm just thinking, "Don't turn! Don't lean! Don't gas it! Don't grab brakes!!!" It takes forever but I'm through the spill. The southbound lane was completely coated centerline to shoulder, and the northbound lane was coated from center lane to middle of the lane,
These pics were taken on the way in this morning, 48 hours later!!!
Start of the spill, looking opposite the direction I was going:
Same place, across the street:
Looking right down on it. There's some sand left, which apparently was the extent of their cleanup effort:
This is where the truck pulled over almost off the road:
This is looking from the truck's resting place back to where I started the pics. The spill runs to the point you see cars on the road:
I can't wait for it to rain!!!!!
On the way home yesterday I came across another little demonstration of brilliance. You know those streets with four lanes of traffic, and a shared center turn lane? And how people use the turn lane as a "merge" lane when turning left onto the street from a shop or driveway? Well, here's what happens when two people do that at the same time:
These pics were taken on the way in this morning, 48 hours later!!!
Start of the spill, looking opposite the direction I was going:
Same place, across the street:
Looking right down on it. There's some sand left, which apparently was the extent of their cleanup effort:
This is where the truck pulled over almost off the road:
This is looking from the truck's resting place back to where I started the pics. The spill runs to the point you see cars on the road:
I can't wait for it to rain!!!!!
On the way home yesterday I came across another little demonstration of brilliance. You know those streets with four lanes of traffic, and a shared center turn lane? And how people use the turn lane as a "merge" lane when turning left onto the street from a shop or driveway? Well, here's what happens when two people do that at the same time:
