Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Traffic Jam

Big trucks and little trucks; trucks with trailer-beds and trucks with camp-trailers; old cars and new cars sit still in the northbound lane of Highway 95. I walk the dogs over to the north pasture but all I can see is more of the traffic jam; not the cause.

I'm not sure I want to see the cause.

Today, amid more rain and flowing traffic, I read the cause of yesterday's blockage: at 1:46 p.m. a load of logs broke loose on Highway 95 near the south county line, with the spill reported to be blocking traffic. A cattle truck was clipped by one of the falling logs. 

Today it may be raining cats and dogs, but yesterday it was cows and logs!


8 comments:

  1. WoW! I bet you don't see too many traffic jams like this! The horses look as though they could care less!

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    1. The horses get excited at first, going to the fence as if someone might come over and scratch their heads. But one no does, they go back to grazing!

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  2. I heard about that happening. That would change a lot of plans for people quickly.

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    1. And no way around--it's the only road in and out of Canada. The new plan: sit and watch Elmira Pond!

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  3. Should have had a few rounds of flash fiction with the jammed up drivers. Could have been fun, and who knows, you might have discovered the next blockbuster writer... a Charli Mills clone.

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  4. Wow, I haven't seen a jam like that in a long time. That does sound like a grand flash fiction in the making. Raining logs and cows, I will have to remember that one. At least they can pass the time watching Elmira Pond.

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    1. Too bad I didn't think to paint a sign, "read my blog." :-)

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