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01:20:2004 Entry: "Ann : Thank goodness for overturned beer trucks!"
Thank goodness for overturned beer trucks!
Colorado Rock Slide. This is some weird stuff! No one was hurt, because the highway was already closed because of an overturned beer truck accident. I mean, how fortunate is that? Play the video (the top one is informative...the bottom one is just junky footage of highway workers) and see what a MAJOR disaster this could've been if there was traffic on the highway. Unbelievable...what a mess! Stan and I were on this interestate just about a month ago and each time I travel it I look up at the mountains and think it would be so easy for rocks to just come down, and even if you saw it coming, you really would have no out. Cliffs come right off the shoulder. The canyon is so steep that there's no room for a 4-lane...they have to double-decker the highway here, which is sort of neat visually, anyway. And there's one exit for some lake that reads something like "Exit (some number) does not return to westbound I-70" which means if you go to the lake, you have to go back to eastbound I-70, then find another exit that'll take you back to westbound (or maybe it's vice-a-versa...I forgot). Stan and I were just joking on our drive this year that there's no way to get back once you go to the lake...like it's sort of the end of the world, and whoever takes the lake exit is then doomed there forever. Yes, it's a weird part of the world. Glenwood Springs does have seismic activity...I wonder if that was at play at all?
By Ann @ 14:14 AM CST:01:20:04 ..::Link::..
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