I swear, if Canadian bloggers are sick of blogging about the extreme cold in the winter, then I am sick of posting about the ridiculous wind we get out here. Because that is what it is. RIDICULOUS. If you want to know how ridiculous, just search for how many times “windy day” has been mentioned on this blog. Go ahead. I dare you. With that in mind, check out what I saw when I woke up from my nap this afternoon:
It might be hard to tell, but that there is a truck that freakin’ BLEW off the interstate up there. The cab was laying across one of the north/westbound lanes and traffic behind this whole mess was pretty much stopped for a good thirty minutes. Quite the sight, right? Which, you know, would be something if it weren’t the SECOND TIME that this has happened since we’ve lived out here. The thing that gets me is that it’s pretty much in the exact same spot this happened before. Of course!
For now, the snow has started up (yep, again) and the wind has petered out somewhat (I mean, it could still blow away small children and dogs out there, but I doubt anymore semi-trucks will be flying off the roadway). The cab of the poor truck above was lifted out of there and removed and traffic has since returned to normal. All that remains is the sad trailer, laying on it’s side, getting all snowed on. I imagine, like last time, they’ll come remove it in a day or so. Such is living out here in the Windy West. Can I move now?
Edit: Heh, check it out.
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mojavi (21 comments.) 01.31.08 at 7:45 pm
all I have to say is YUCK! hope they don’t get any closer to your house when they fly off the highway! A friend of mine lived off the highway and one night a semi went right through their house. In one end out the other! Luckily no one was hurt! Missed her mom in the bed by 4 feet!!!! yuck even the driver survived. The mom thought they were hit by a tornado for over an hour until the police arrived and found the semi in the back ravine!!!
Loralee (131 comments.) 01.31.08 at 9:11 pm
We have huge storms going on all this week and since I live at the opening of a canyon, the winds are fierce.
:S
Michelle 02.01.08 at 3:51 am
Yeah. We had wind like that when we were in Albuquerque. Not sure any trucks got blown off the road, but had we still been in typhoon country, that’s what we would have been having. But in Albuquerque it was business as usual. Isn’t that crazy?? One night it got so windy, that the wind actually sucked the little attic access “door” in our garage out of the opening in the ceiling and dropped it back on to my windshield. At like 2AM. Life is an adventure, isn’t it?
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