Posted on 01/05/2017 5:26:10 PM PST by FreeReign
Thank you - I need all I can get!
The Turnpike is one of the most heavily traveled highways plus it is the first “superhighway”. The grades, the curves are the legacy of the abandoned rail line which right of way it follows. The engineering is for the most part not up to modern standards but improvements are slowly being made.
The problem is that our state legislature has made it a cash cow for bailing out big city mass transit and financing named-after-politician pork barrel highway projects which divert a lot of the toll money that should have been put into main line improvements.
I have done work out there and traveled it end to end over a thousand times. I see the same sorts of crashes over and over in the same places for over 30 years.
“You should see what happens when a roll of steel sheet gets loose on the highway and starts unrolling...”
I have. As a young kids on a family vacation. Luckily it veered right into a wooded area.
>>Okay, who here has turned one of those into a coffee table<<
In college. It was pretty nice. I sanded the heck out of it and put like 5 coats of lacquer.
several years ago a flywheel fell of a truck and hit a car going in the opposite direction. Decapitated the driver. The joke was he actually downshifted and pulled over.(nnot)
In college. It was pretty nice. I sanded the heck out of it and put like 5 coats of lacquer.
I read a book a long time ago by a woman who criticized men with makeshift furniture and she specifically mentioned the example of using a giant spool for a table.
I saw a flatbed truck carrying spools of sheet steel that got stuck on a grade crossing. The train hit one of the spools. It was inertia vs. momentum; inertia won.
Those coils weigh over 40 thousand pounds each.
>>I read a book a long time ago by a woman who criticized men with makeshift furniture and she specifically mentioned the example of using a giant spool for a table.<<
>>If there is one thing that builds character it is going through a time being semi-broke with your first apartment. Homemade and garage-sale furniture (spools, milk crates, etc.), ramen noodles, generic brand beer.
All those things teach value of a dollar, frugality, budgeting and so many other lessons.
From what I can tell, these lessons have skipped both Gen X and Millennials.
At least it wasn’t 30,000 lbs of bananas...someone would’ve been killed.
Pull that vehicle over for failure to signal when changing lanes.
If that’s where I think it is, the truck that lost the spool was on the long, steep hill on US 40 going eastbound out of Uniontown, PA. It’s steep even by western PA standards.
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