Posted on 09/07/2023 11:49:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The Washington State Patrol said a stretch of road was closed for several hours when an overturned truck covered the roadway in fuel -- and potatoes.
WSP District 6 said on social media that the truck overturned on State Road 262 in the area of mile marker 17, near the O'Sullivan Dam in Grant County.
No one was injured in the crash, but the truck spilled its load of potatoes onto the roadway.
The WSP said the road was closed for several hours because the vehicle's fuel also leaked onto the road, causing a safety hazard.
The roadway was fully reopened Tuesday evening.
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i believe they were idaho’s finest
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Not necessarily. Washington State also produces a great deal of potatoes. It’s just that Idaho has better PR.
ooh!.........of what?..........
Too much hash.................
Eastern Washington red so I would assume Cab Sauvignon
Dan Quail is confused...
Only joking
The incident I’m thinking of was at least 20 years before 2022.
It apparently happens a lot!..............😜
I passed by an overturned tanker once on the highway and I asked the trooper what that liquid was pouring out of the tanker and he said it was corn oil..................
I never hauled it. And it may be rare to anymore. But before I became an OTR driver, I was a farmer, living a couple of miles from a curve on US 67 in NW IL. The hog plant 15 miles to the south would hang meat in trailers. That curve got a lot of trucks through the 70s, 80s, and most of the 90s. It wasn’t built for the ignorant at all. As you entered it began to bank nicely, but then flatten out about half way into it, and if driving a top heavy load....
They rebuilt that curve in 1998. I know it intimately, as I quit my steel fabrication job, got an operator permit, and helped rebuild the 3 mile stretch of road that had the curve at the south end (county line).
Great setup. The contractor told me that after hours I could use any piece of their equipment on my farm. I knocked down old hog sheds, an old falling down corn crib, took out old fence, toppled thorn trees, etc, and buried what wouldn’t burn. The pasture looked like park when it greened up the following year.
and isn’t that part of washington petitioning to become part of idaho? i don’t know?
Actually, there’s been talks for decades about Eastern Washington, northern Idaho, extreme Western Montana, and parts of Oregon, forming a separate state called ‘Cascadia’.
Chances of it actually happening? Slim to none.
Idaho farmer find out where his truck is at.
If those were Bill Gates bio-engineered taters McDonalds gonna run short in a few days. And that area will soon be declared a haz-mat zone.
Darn, we just missed it. We drove through there yesterday on I-90 on our way to Wenatchee and Leavenworth. Potato, apple and pear harvesting going on all over the place. Thousands of crates are positioned in all the orchards. Mexican pickers are all over the place, too.
When you see the tens of miles of orchards around Wenatchee and the hundreds of thousands of trees and the millions of pieces of fruit, you marvel that it can all get picked.
One potato....two potato....
9,999,999 potatoes on the ground.........
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