11 thoughts on “Twofer

  1. That puckers a driver’s asshole more then anything. tipping over and you cannot stop it once it reaches a certain angle…

    • Could be northbound highway 2 just north of Claresholm Alberta. Terrain looks right and they get wind like that coming down off the mountains 4 or 5 times a year.

      Exile1981

  2. Interesting that trucker #2 did not ask himself “why is that guy over on his side at just this point” before driving through? Ooops, wind funnel here, too late.

  3. Saw it happen a few years ago while driving through the Wind River Gourge.
    Narrow 2 lane rd. And, we had a couple days up here this winter that it did that to a few of them.

  4. Laid a straight truck carrying lumber over on its side once. Not a good feeling. I dislocated my left shoulder keeping my hear away from the side window. Death grip on the steering wheel. Brakes failed on a corner. The load only shifted two inches, but that was enough to put it on over. It almost scared me to death since there were children waiting for the school bus on the opposite corner of the intersection.

  5. I-15 north of Salt Lake City. Farmington area. Windstorm there last year was knocking over trucks for miles, and the University recorded wind gusts up to 113 mph.

  6. Wonder if he could have saved it by steering out from under, assuming he head enough room to do that. Probably would have just gone over couple hundred feet farther down the road, but at least he wouldn’t be blocking a lane.

  7. Back when I was growing up in Montana (Great Falls), the TV stations had stock footage of blown-over trucks on I-90 to run when there they had high winds to report.

    Different footage on different channels, and it wasn’t just the same B-roll – different vehicles, different weather, different time-of-day.

    (This was on both KRTV and KFBB, which shows how fukken old *I* am – we didn’t get a third channel (for NBC, so their programming came off KFBB at that point) until ’86.)

    (Shit, I remember going downtown with my grandma to watch the old Paris Gibson Junior High School – which Grandma still called Central High, so that’s how old *she* was – get blown up filming Telefon.)

    (The better movie for reminiscing is, of course, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. “Yeah, been there, they turned that into the school admin buildings, my mom used to buy smokes there, shopped there and no they never had fucking guard dogs…”)

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