My 2nd cousin and her husband have a friend, ÛÏSamÛ, who lives in Portland, Nice guy, early 30s, working a couple jobs and going to college. Sam traveled about 300 miles south to southern Oregon to buy a used Toyota Forerunner.
After he picked up his new rig he headed over the mountains to visit my cousins here in Bend (about 200 miles). A huge storm was raging across the state yesterday. He stopped and texted them that the going was slow and it would take longer than anticipated.
A while later cousins get a text that Sam had slid off the road and was in the ditch.
On the other end of the textÛ? Sam looked up after sending it and sees a semi sliding sideways across the highway right towards him.
He jumps out of the door and takes off running away.
HereÛªs the photo he took of his new truck.
And hereÛªs what he has to show for his time and trouble (the semi was hauling onions)
The moral of the story being that when the roads are so bad that you end up in the ditch, staying in your vehicle might not be the safest thing. You might want to move farther away from the next accident thatÛªs about to happen at the same spot.
Wow
So glad that he was aware of the situation
Lucky guy.
Incredibly alert and fortunate.
Wow Mike! He is lucky to be alive!
It looks like the Forerunner remained reasonably intact, and that the semi broke around it -- the front seat headrests appear to be undamaged. Not that it would have been any fun to be sitting in those seats when it happened...
WOW! Sam is one observant dude.
[USER=10]@Jim Frame[/USER] the second photo has a Subaru? floor mat in the rear. I think it may have been Sam's ride home with evidence. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 403419, member: 379 wrote: [USER=10]@Jim Frame[/USER] the second photo has a Subaru? floor mat in the rear. I think it may have been Sam's ride home with evidence. 😉
That makes sense.
[USER=123]@Mike Berry[/USER]
BTW, the correct word is tale, not tail.
Holy Cow, post: 403433, member: 50 wrote: [USER=123]@Mike Berry[/USER]
BTW, the correct word is tale, not tail.
You should know....
Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
Cows ... Er... Bulls know this de-TAIL!
Holy Cow, post: 403433, member: 50 wrote: BTW, the correct word is tale, not tail.
Thanks Cow. The post title got SNAFUÛªd in multiple edits.
The first go round I had it as:
Stories from waist, tail and turret gunners of the 8th Air Force, 34th Bombardment Group, 1941-1945
Û? but that didnÛªt make much sense, so I changed it to:
Monitoring waste water from mining tailings of the Mizpah Mine in Tonopah, Nevada
Û? but that really did not seem relevant either, so I did a hasty edit to what we see now.
The depth of meaning in this tale is tailing off.
Holy Cow, post: 403433, member: 50 wrote: [USER=123]@Mike Berry[/USER]
BTW, the correct word is tale, not tail.
I took the use of tail rather than tale as a form of literary foreshadowing as the protagonist in the story had to turn tail as the truck approached.
Oh mu goodness! (filtered expression for the kids).
Should you wait in the car after an accident?...a little story about a recent incident along one of our roads.
My brother sent me this picture of a car that ran off the road.
The guy was extremely lucky. He crawled out of the passenger door and stood on the road until someone drove by.
They gave him a ride down river to a pay phone so he could call a tow truck then dropped him back off at his car to wait.
The driver of the Prius said he would just sit in his car and wait for the to truck. The people that helped him strongly insisted that this was not safe and that he should not enter his car. Despite the warnings, he climbed back into the car, started it up and sat there with the heater on for 2 hours until the tow truck arrived!
Not a single tire was touching the ground.
Here is what it looked like on the downhill side...
